I love Duaner Sanchez. I'll vote for Pedro anytime he wants to run for anything. And this article by Ben Shpigel is enormously hopeful, though “enormously hopeful” is the norm for February stories about injured pitchers.
(Seriously. When's the last time you read a spring-training story in which the pitcher said, “I'm way behind schedule, instead of rehabbing my arm after surgery I ate everything in sight, and I'm pretty sure when I return I'll suck”?)
Anyway, it's hopeful. But I couldn't help thinking that it must be interesting inside Duaner Sanchez's head after reading what he learned from having another driver cross three lanes and hit his taxi on I-95: “[H]e now avoids taxis. He hires town cars, or rents a car and drives it himself.”
Huh?
OK, never mind that. Just wait till you read whom Pedro was fishing with.
 
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Also… isn't a town car just a taxi that isn't painted yellow?
Slightly off-topic – but I was playing around with a new baseball-reference tool and discovered a really neat Mets record that I hadn't been aware of: in 1969 the Mets went 23 games without allowing a home run – the longest such streak between 1957 and 2006. The next longest streak? 12 games. This is a record that may never be broken.
Here's the link:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/gege
I liked Pedro's fishing buddy. He was very sweet. Didn't have a surly bone in his body, and he actually cared when he messed up. That means something in my (Pollyanna) book.
Besides, with Moises on board, Cousin Mel's part of the family again.
Welcome Back Rojas. Coming to SNY this spring.
“Ooooooh, that's Mel!”
Good times.