'I'm gonna vomit': Reliving the wild 2022 baseball season through my text messages
It started with a lockout. How did it end up like this?
On December 1, 2021, a few hours before Major League Baseball owners took the ball and went home, I reached for my phone to message the only person I knew who would understand. “Scherzer was spotted a couple weeks ago visiting GOP Senate offices,” I said to my dad. “I wonder if he’s doing an inside job.”
It was my first text of the 2022 baseball season. The last one came eleven months and five days later, on November 6, the day after the Philadelphia Phillies lost the World Series.
“There is no joy in Mudville,” Dad said that morning. “But there is hope: if you are available, let’s have dinner tonight to debrief the WS and cry in our Cabernet.”
Ours that night was the one conversation last year I wish was recorded. The rest are in my phone: my lockout conspiracy theories, my free agent signings, my trying to understand Joe Girardi and bench Alec Bohm, and my meltdowns after each Phillies loss. My phone documented my soul departing my body in Philadelphia at the National League Division …
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