This week in RetrOgrAde, let’s discuss “affect.” Not the verb, but the noun—as in the psychological feelings that result from some force, some encounter, some event, some “thing.” That’s the topic for this week. What “affects” result from some force, encounter, event or some THING that is A’s baseball. Let’s talk about the affects that, to this day, you close your eyes and picture it, see a clip, here someone describe it, and the same feeling emerges again—transported in time.
Ok, so here’s an illustrative example: The Stew Stare. It always THRILLED me to see a close up of Stew on the mound.