Now, it might just be that you've tested positive.
Kahnle will miss the rest of 2020 and probably all of 2021. He finishes with a perfect 0.00 ERA - from one game, one inning, one hit, one walk, and three strikeouts. Next time we see Tommy - not necessarily in a Yankee uniform - he'll be 32 and probably living off his change-up. In the meantime, we will remember him last week, pitching to empty seats in Baltimore, helping to win a game in a season that might soon follow him into exile.
In today's Murdoch, Joel Sherman reports what we all secretly know: that baseball's 2020 season is teetering on the brink, and that the game cannot sustain many more weeks like the opener.
Last night, as the Yankees beat up on hapless Boston, I could not dismiss the sense that the joke would soon be on us, that for all its billions, MLB cannot put forth a product safe for players and employees. Baseball's downfall, of course, will be what it always is: The hubris that comes with believing that money can defeat nature.
One more outbreak, one more glitch, and this grand experiment might have to be called, like a game in a deluge. It hurts to say this, because I had a feeling that the last few days were starting to restore the community of fans, folks with vastly different world views, but who unite in support of Gleyber Torres.
Tonight, hopefully, John and Suzyn will be back together. I will find a place in the backyard that gets the best radio reception, and I will savor every inning, every pitch. I suggest you do, as well.
Get well, Tommy Kahnle. See you on the other side.
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Ah, how sweet those words sound: "hapless Boston."
How nice it would have been to play another whole season with the Carmine Hose in full rebuild mode—again.
The memory of Kahnle celebrating with himself in the bullpen, running, jumping and crashing into a wall solo after a huge win, will forever burn a memory in my mind. He was, in many ways, the heart and soul of the team. They all loved him. Such sad, sad news. Rest up good sir and come back better than ever in ‘22.
IMHO, what will kill the season are the players who are used to something Strange every night. Manfred even implied as much. Plus, players can't seem to get close enough to each other, and first base, oy! The players' union should mandate that their members wear masks, with few exceptions.
What a lousy birthday this will be for Kahnle - his 31st is on Friday. He will indeed be missed.
Kevin: couldn't agree with you more. Many of us here in Wien never stopped wearing our masks, even after many restrictions were lifted (and in the last two weeks, reinstated for supermarkets, post offices, and banks). Our national uptick in new cases can be centred on some tourist-trap towns in the Alpine states to the west.
Hoss: "Hapless Boston" - is that anything like "Motherless Brooklyn?"
Infinitely better, Austria!
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