The famous poets Blink-182 once said, “Nobody likes you when you’re 23.” They were right.
For many Americans, 23 is the perilous age between young, unburdened dummy and older, now-has-to-pay-bills dummy. The typical American education system spits kids out at 18, millions of them go to college, and then they graduate at 22. But 23 is usually right around the time that the universe delivers its first right hook. “One day you’ll look back on this and laugh”, it seems to say, “But for now I’m going to spend every waking moment making things impossible for you.”
One way to circumvent all of this, it turns out, is to be disgustingly good at baseball!