Baseball Is Life: Joey Votto Is Perfect

When I first began writing for Redleg Nation and ran through the list of post categories, I had zero surprise when I ran across one titled “Joey Votto” and another called “Joey Votto Is Perfect.” For he is, and why not devote an entire subcategory to the matter?

By this, of course, I don’t mean that Joey Votto was born without original sin. That distinction goes only to Jesus Christ and perhaps also John Glenn. By “perfect” I mean that he is at precisely the right place at precisely the right time. (Redleg Nation also offers a post category entitled “Poopy Pants,” however, so perhaps it’s not quite the stamp of immortality I first assumed it was.)

Votto became my emotional adoption project…