Hideo Nomo Has a Posse

It’s kind of sad when totally unexpectedly your team trades for one of the best players in the game and you get all excited- excited’s not really the word- you almost go insane, like it’s Christmas come early, and you’re full of baseball jitters you haven’t felt in a long long time and then you read a story like this.

And the city, to Lee, always “seemed like it was on the other side of the world” when he played here as a visitor. He’s never been based farther west than his native Arkansas.

It’s like you got the prettiest girl in school to go to the dance with you, then she spends the whole time complaining that she’s only there because the quarterback of the team took someone else. Cliff! Seattle’s very nice. In the summer, there’s no prettier place on this earth. The San Juans. Alkhi. Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, Olympic National Park, the Cascades, the– the list goes on! You will enjoy yourself. You’ll sign an extension! And the winter will come, and the darkness, and maybe you’ll feel regret- but no! You made the right decision! ¶