Clare called yesterday
afternoon. Rumor has it we may take a
walk together soon, appropriately masked, of course. But the call was all baseball. My daughter had seen a YouTube interview with
White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito and told me she was forwarding the link. It’s not quite visiting the elderly, but
close.
Anyway, I went online to watch pro
softball player—and all-time NCAA softball record holder for homeruns—Lauren
Chamberlain interview Giolito over a game of Jenga. Don’t ask; once your reach a certain age,
that kind of stuff is dumb. God forbid
we ask people to possess the skills to talk to one another across a table. To their credit, Chamberlain and Giolito can
converse, so I guess it could’ve been a lot worse, and I don’t mean the Jenga
tower collapsing early on.
What really impressed me was
Giolito’s answer to a question, about the one pitch he’d most like to steal
from anyone. Without hesitating a
second, Giolito answered, “Bob Gibson’s slider.” That meant not only did a
pitcher from 2020 know who Gibson was, so did my daughter, at least to the
extent she knew I’d be impressed that Giolito had a clue. Of course, as soon as Clare mentioned it, I
digressed into how my sliders gave her a problem at the ages of ten and
eleven. No good deed goes unpunished, my
child.
But I am happy she called, and I am happy Lucas Giolito has a clue.
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