Here is the difference between an afternoon of fun and an afternoon of fury: A simple flick of the wrists, a baseball colliding with the beefy part of a bat, then soaring off toward the distant M&M’s and W.B. Mason signs in left field. A 2-0 game becomes a 6-0 game, and eventually an 11-1 victory, and a four-game sweep.
Wait till tomorrow to chew your nails to the quick.
“This,” Mickey Callaway would say after the Mets were done sweeping the Diamondbacks, “is the goal when you do things the right way, when you continue to grind.