Source: http://ift.tt/IsN8HP --- Saturday, February 25, 2017
This was a long offseason. For as forgettable and unwatchable and frustrating the previous couple of seasons have been, Baseball is comfort that, for eight months a year, gives and gives without asking for anything back. It has has long stretches of boring and intense bursts of excitement, it has heroes and villains and rivalries and companionship. It can be infuriating at points, heartbreaking at others, and we constantly hold onto hope for the unlikeliest of outcomes. Baseball is an escape from the realities of our busy lives while also mirroring them. The moment the Cubs celebrated on the field following the final out of the 2016 World Series, marking the end of a long season, a disquiet appeared and followed my soul as the feeling of comfort that Baseball provides was left behind. And, to top it all off, the offseason was SO BORING. But it is now officially over. Baseball (mostly) is back. *** Click here to revisit today's Game Thread! *** The A’s lost their spring training opener 4-3, but that isn’t important. What is important is Jesse Hahn taking the mound for 1.2 innings and recording two strikeouts. He was roughed up just a tad in his second inning of work, in which he allowed three runs, but the inning could have gone much differently had he fielded a tough chopper back to the mound successfully in lieu of deflecting the comebacker into left field. But the runs allowed aside, Hahn was satisfied with the movement he rega ...
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