LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: not blown this time

Last week I had finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy, so I went to the library to get something new to read. My heart was set on Jeff Fletcher’s Ohtani book, and the card catalog computer said the book was not checked out, so I wrote down the Dewey info and went to the baseball section, but it wasn’t there.

I hoped that it was just put in the incorrect spot, so I looked through the titles one by one, and I came across an Angels book I didn’t know existed.

It is an autobiography by Bengie Molina called Molina, although the subtitle says the book is about his dad. It is a good read. There was a lot of familial love in Bengie’s childhood. The descriptions of what it was like to grow up in Puerto Rico are interesting.

Bengie was obsessed with baseball as a little kid (his dad was a local baseball legend), and his lifelong dream was to be drafted the summer he graduated from high school.

To his shock and dismay, it didn’t happen. So now I’m at the part where he borrows some money to go to America to attend a junior college in Arizona, without knowing any English and having just $20 to his name, in order to play baseball and pray that a scout notices him.

The key for today’s game is “Welcome Back” by John Sebastian.

My memories are still ablaze with the potential Griffin Canning possessed before the stress fracture in his back shut him down. The top teams don’t have to worry if they go through a patch of mediocrity at the beginning of the season because they are going to dominate for the majority of the season and cruise to a playoff spot, but for a team like the Angels who dream of having just enough wins to claim a wildcard spot, every loss makes that wildcard dream less likely.

I’m glad Canning is healthy and he’s back here where we need him  🎶 

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