The only spring
training game that fit our schedule was Mets vs. Braves at the ESPN Sports
Complex at Disney. I am not a fan of the
mouse. Naturally, his dog Pluto helped
throw out the first pitch. The Braves’
season ticketholder selected for that honor must have needed help.
As luck would
have it, both starting pitchers were ex-White Sox, Carlos Torres for the Mets
and Fred “Sweatie Freddy” Garcia for the Braves. I can still remember the day the Sox acquired
Garcia from Seattle. It was a Sunday in
early June, the first day of practice for the summer high school team Clare was
playing for; she just happened to be fourteen months away from starting high
school at the time. She asked me if it
was a good trade, and I said, Maybe.
That will be ten
years ago come Clare’s graduation this spring.
Time flies, even for a master of junk and deception.
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