Baseball dichotomy: the bat and the glove. Find the tender equilibrium between the two, let not one collapse the other. Don't let the glove swallow the bat, nor the bat club unconscious the glove. The promise of the glove clubbed unconscious by the bat, is Adam Everett, who holds a baseball bat in the manner of an 11-year-old.
His work in the field is as a cloud moves across the sky: simple, deliberate, smooth and incomprehensible, appearing and disappearing, nebulous. He glances from toe to toe, squared to a hopping ground ball up the middle, transfers the ball from glove--glove!--to hand and a moment later, the sleight of hand complete, the ball arrives at first base, having traveled on a first class flight and arrived three parts of a second ahead of time.
His work in the batter's box recalls a time when skinny, awkward hitters could live in the major leagues, and hoard a respectable quantity of years on Olympus. Tragic, now, knowing that a fielding messiah will not last in the face of that oh-pee-essical sacrilege.
A tenuous thread--"I'm hanging on by a thread"--can render a moment--an inning--into an ache. "God, I hope that Adam Everett isn't canned for being such a shitty hitter, 'cause I don't know if I can stand to watch the Astros play without his play at short." I feel the same with every season goes by that instant replay stays out of the game.
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Lineup - The Favorites
C -
1B - Lance Berkman
2B - Craig Biggio
3B -
SS - Adam Everett
LF -
CF -
RF -
SP -
RP -
Manager -
3 comments:
I'm glad to see such extreme love for the Twins new shortstop! I was a little worried when they (my favorite team) signed Everett due to his weak offense, but his superb defense sounds mind-blowing.
(I'm one of Dave's friends, by the way.)
Don't get me wrong: you will hate him. But you might also love him. His work in baseball garners mixed feelings that press against each extreme.
Frankly, that's better than our other current internal option at shortstop, Nick Punto. He falls squarely in the "hate" column, along with former Twins like Juan Castro, Tony Batista, and Sidney Ponson. Dear God, I pray that the Twins days of mediocre washed-up free agent signings are over.
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