Listening to the Giants broadcast of the exhibition against Team USA (praise the internet!), one of the announcers says a player's name, Daren McBain, sounds like a character out of a James Joyce novel (my personal favorite writer,) and then Jon Miller takes it, as he always does, and stretches it into some fun, inning-long nonsense about how you could call a book Portrait of the Baseball Player as a Young Man and proceeds to go on and on like only he can do about what ballplayers are artists, including Brett Tomko, who apparently draws and paints, and Greg Maddux, who does not but was mentioned anyway.Nothing like sitting out on the porch listening to a baseball game, pretending like it is warmer than it is just because you can't wait for the real warmth to bring on real baseball.
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