I don’t want to talk about it.
Ichiro has been traded to the Yankees.
The most entertaining, cerebral, stunning outfielder of the past decade has been shipped from the Seattle Mariners to that soulless corporation posing as a baseball team, twisting a unique institution into just another cog in joyless pursuit of a pennant.
If you’re of the mind to believe in some sort of higher power, today should be enough to make you question, or abandon, that forever.
Excuse me, while I crawl into a hole until 2013.
July 23, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Ah, t’would have been far worse if they’d done it eight or 10 years ago. Still, I feel your pain.