A Brigadoon Refsnyder Sighting! Can the End Days Be Upon Us???

Yes, folks, it's happened again! There has been another sighting of Brigadoon Refsnyder, this time in the uniform of our arch nemesis, the Boston Pilgrims.

And what a sighting! In two games, the Reffer went 4-6, with two runs scored and a ribbie, bringing his average this year up to a whopping .412!

Combined with the Yankees' ungodly, 47-16 start, what can this all portend???

Do we see a bad moon a-rising? Do we see trouble on the way? Do we see earthquakes and lightning? Are we...quite prepared to die?

For those of you who may be less than familiar with the American theatre, Brigadoon was a Broadway smash, turned into a technicolor extravaganza starring Gene Kelly, who decides he would rather live in a mystical, mythical Scottish highland village with Cyd Charisse, than in 1947 Manhattan, the greatest place to have been anytime anywhere ever.

(Well, all right: Cyd Charisse.)

Of course, a streak like this would've led to the Refmonster being immediately sent back down if the Sox' GM were Brian Cashman—which is how he became "Brigadoon" in the first place, inexplicably disappearing despite playing quite well in his few appearances for the Bronx team.

What does this all mean? Birds and snakes and aeroplanes? And IS Lenny Bruce unafraid?

Well, for one thing, it's a tribute to Robbie the Resilient who, by my calculations has now played for 6 major-league and 13 minor-league teams, if we count the Cape Cod League (which we sure as hell do!), and is still just 31. 

And why do I have the strange, awful feeling in the pit of my stomach that Refmo will somehow be facing us in a key playoffs at-bat this fall?

And is it MORE than coincidence that "The End of the World As We Know It" includes the line, "Wire in a fire, represent the seven games"?  (I'm not making this up!)

But hey, in tribute, here is Robbie in just some of the many different hats and unis he's worn over the years:

  

"Time I had some time alone, time I had some time alone..."