FFF: For Nature Boy with Love (Too many movie references ensue)

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“Hey Guys, it’s me! I bet you thought that I was dead. But when I fell over I just broke my leg and got a hemorrhage in my head.” Not really, but “It’d be a lot cooler” if I did. Truth be told, I’ve fallen victim to the ole work induced insomnia, and “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep… and you’re never really awake.” Nevertheless, mark June 23, 2017 as the day I take my life back, “Seriously, do it. Do it. Do it.” Enough quotes and down to business, let’s talk baseball!

As I glanced through the standings this morning, I couldn’t help but empathize with Brendan Fraser in “Blast from the Past.” Two questions for you: 1) When did the Yankees get good again? and 2) How long are we going to pretend Aaron Judge wasn’t made in a lab somewhere? The team was drubbed in the season opener and looked like Chance, Shadow, and Sassy with no sense of direction, lost AF. Now they sit tied with the Bo Sox, despite losing 8 of their last 10, atop of a pretty damn good AL East, due in large part to 25 year old Aaron Judge. Judge’s rookie stat line reads .331 Avg, 25 Hrs, 57 RBIs, and 63 Runs through 68 games. “I’m not even mad, that’s amazing!”

Sticking with AL leaders, let’s talk about the job “Tito” has done since replacing Lou Brown as the skipper for the Tribe in 2013. Fresh off their World Series Runner-up campaign last year, the Indians have been my pick to repeat as AL Central Champs, so long as they are able to fight off Jack Parkman, his shimmy, and those pesky South-Side White Sox. Wait, I’m being told Brown sells tires and Parkman was an actor so I’ve now confirmed the Indians will slide into the playoffs like a hot knife through butter. Biggest question is do they make a move before the trade deadline? Yes or No, I still have them in the AL Championship barring no major injuries and/or collapses.

Lastly but not straight to, we head to the Wild, Wild West. Not shocked the Astros are leading the division but beyond blown away the are the first team to 50 wins… on June 22nd. The rumor mill has them as the favorite to land Brad Pitt, I mean Billy Bean’s, midseason dump of Ace, Sonny Gray. Bean’s loss could be Houston’s win as he still tries to sell his “Moneyball” approach in Oakland. Pairing a couple competitive, talented pitchers like Gray and Keuchel could be the recipe for successes and land the ‘Stos an October date with the aforementioned Indians.

I hate that I’ve missed so much stickball over the past few months but have to stay true to my life motto, “No Regerts.” I’ve missed you SoBros Nation. I’ll never leave you again, unless I get busy or whatever. But until then, let me leave you with this, “The one constant through all the years, SoBros, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, SoBros. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.”

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