We have been reminded again these past few weeks how powerful the imagination can be in sports, how easy it is to trigger in the very soul of a sports fan.
Daniel Jones has relit that spark among a fresh generation of Giants fans who’d already started tasting life in the wilderness, even after only two weeks on the job.
Mets fans may have thought they had a nice young player with pop when Pete Alonso broke camp with the team in March; what he became across six months and 162 games and 53 balls launched over the sky was a full-bloom dreamscape for any fan who invests even a little bit of his soul in the games people play.