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Laying Down the Law
By Matt Himelfarb
Posted Thursday, March 5, 2009
Spring training is the ultimate source of salvation for fans. It is not just that baseball season has returned; here in southern New Jersey, it just snowed above three inches for the first time this half-decade. Whereas most Mets fans are like a distraught Andy Rooney from Opening Day until September, spring training is like video games; you either win or you start over.
This relentless optimism is stifling. Talking to Mets fans today about Luis Castillo is like walking into a feminist gathering and hearing them rave about Maureen Dowd (no offense if that’s what you’re into). You know what? I hate it. I abhor it. It is the short-term-hopefulness of abominations. From Luis’s apologies to everybody’s glowing reports about how he is “in-shape” (as though a $6 million dollar contract wasn’t enough of a motivation last year),- it is like everybody’s taking a piss on me, than contending that its’ in fact rain and it’s going to produce beautiful flowers.
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