Posts tagged ‘Existentialism’

Oh, what a tangled (world-wide) web we baseball fans weave. Today’s postings on Purple Row make for a very confusing game of Six Degrees of Separation. At 11 this morning, Poseidon’s Fist posted a very thorough scouting report on the Mets. Give it a read: you’ll learn lots of interesting stuff.  Before you do though, take a look at the picture and caption that lead the post. This is what started to throw my world off its axis. The handsome, beanied, bewildered “Mets fan” on the left is me. I drove up to check out the new ballpark shortly before the season started, when Citi Field hosted a Georgetown/St. John’s baseball game for its very first public event. The troubling part about this for me is that it’s clear a lot of research goes into Poseidon’s Fist’s Know Your Foe postings. So I at least have to consider that Poseidon’s Fist correctly identified me as a Mets fan but I have yet to realize my own loyalties. That would be quite the existential crisis if I were to learn after all these years that I do not, in fact, like the Rockies.

However, I had to push those fears aside as Purple Row blew my mind with another post two hours later. This time Russ posted a video clip of his phone interview on SNY.tv’s “New York Baseball Today”.  At this point, I had to lie down and take a nap. You see, the regular host of “New York Baseball Today” is none other than friend of Rockiescast and SNY.tv senior editor Ted Berg. The very same Ted Berg is the gentleman with the wonderful hair in the middle of the picture on Poseidon’s Fist’s post. On top of that, consider the reason why Mr. Berg wasn’t available to host “New York Baseball Today” this week: he’s on his honeymoon with the bewildered Mets fan on the right in that infamous photo. (Her name is Liz and she’s awesome, in case anyone is curious.)

Hoo boy, time for another nap. I only hope that I’ve confused someone else as much as this whole situation has confused me.