Hammerin’ Harper
May 27th, 2015 by MC
I acknowledge that “Las Vegas Mormons With Flair,” is John Mansfield’s beat. However, in the midst of all his Brandon Flowers blogging, it must be pointed out that despite releasing a well-regarded solo album, Bro. Flowers isn’t even having the best month out of the small subset of young, famous Las Vegas Mormons. It’s not even close.
Update: He hit another home run tonight.
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Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: baseball, bryce harper, las vegas, mormons
Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: baseball, bryce harper, las vegas, mormons
May 27th, 2015 01:35:46
Bertie W.
May 27, 2015
This was the laddy who had what Jeeves described as the fraternal and felicitous characterization of a reportorial inquiry. If I’m parsing Jeeves’ lingo right, his response to one of the brethren of the press was full of the right stuff and by no means not aces, if you follow me. Good to see one of the lads going from strength to strength.
John Mansfield
May 27, 2015
Well, I worry that I may overdo it, so it is good to hear others enjoying the better products of my hometown. The Nationals drafting Harper got me into baseball, which I hadn’t been before. Bit by bit through 2012 and 2013 I would listen more to innings on the radio. When 2014 came, I was giving some attention most days. Harper’s return from his thumb injury last year was the sort of thing every sports bio needs. I wrote last August, “I listened to the last three innings of the Nationals 13 inning game Thursday against the Mets. Harper’s walk-off home run induced more emotion in me than any sports event I can recall. The day before several columnists were musing if he should be sent to the minors or back on the disabled list, and Wednesday night Harper hit a fly out similar to Thursday’s home run, but not high enough and caught at the warning track. It looked like the top of the lineup could end the game in the twelfth but it didn’t happen, raising the question in me, ‘Could Harper return to form here and be the game-ending hero today?’ And he actually did.”
Harper’s performance this month and his team’s have been amazing. Harper’s outsized ability is interesting to consider in contemplating the nature of fair competition. The foundation of his exceptional baseball quality is the Beowulf-class strength of his arms. Performance-enhancing drugs are sanctioned against in athletic competition, and Harper seems to be clean from what I read, yet his body must be multi-sigmas out there in its testosterone production. He probably had afternoon stubble as a 14-year-old. Steroids and such that accelerate healing and strengthening of muscles are banned, but hiring a surgeon to drill holes in a knee or elbow and rearrange tendons is accepted practice, and those whose bodies are drenched in natural manliness are highly prized, including by me.
MC
May 27, 2015
Aaaaand another one:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=350527116
This is getting a bit comical.