Neil Walker Through History, Episode II

We are stuck, miserably, with another Sunday night game tonight. This will not go well.

We even managed to lose our last Sunday night game pitching Severino against the Mets during the worst June in their franchise history. These games usually last about six or seven hours, and always result in a Yankees loss. I believe, based on no statistical evidence whatsoever, that our record in them is now 1-95.

Folks, they're just not natural. Baseball was meant to be played after church services and the collective town Sunday dinner, when after filling up on fried chicken, buttered ham hocks, blueberry pie, and dandelion wine, the menfolk shrug off their Sunday-go-to-meeting jackets and boaters, roll up their shirtsleeves past the garters, and get to business.

Game over by five in the evening, when it's time to hitch up the horses again, collect the drunken hand, and get back to the farm, singing a few drowsy hymns along the way.

However, stuck with this disaster in the making and no Sunday afternoon baseball, I have decided to entertain us with another look back at Neil Walker in history. You'll recall how I already mentioned how Cato the Elder used to begin his every speech in the Roman forum with the admonition, "Walkero delenda est!" 

Well, now it's time to turn to Cromwell's dismissal of the Long Parliament—and Neil Walker. (People have been trying to get rid of Walker for a long, long time):

Cromwell:

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! You, too, Walker!"

Words to live by.