Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

As I have mentioned, I accidentally made a baseball fan of diffrentcolours. (Accidental because all the other English dudes I've dated either hated all sportsball or hated everything USian so I wasn't expecting him to take an interest but it turns out he's the right kind of nerd for sabermetrics to appeal to.)

This afternoon, I introduced him to the concept of Remembering Some Guys (since the Opening Day PR always involves a lot of it; the Twins start in St. Louis so I read names like Jason Isringhausen or Scott Rolen) and used as evidence the thread on here a while ago where everyone listed the mediocre players they loved when they were ten or whatever. He asked me mine (probably Gary Gaetti), and then he said "Mine would be Jake Cave!"

It would. I'm so delighted. He's only been a fan for a few years and yet he totally gets this and has his own Guys already!

He also just told me he misses Sanó and Astudillo. Aww. I do too. And those Guys are perfect for Remembering.

I'm so proud.