
It’s not like I want to live in this house. I just want to sit on that porch awhile, watch the evening storms coming across the hills. Can’t you imagine us doing that? Kicking back with a couple cold beers, the Mets game fading in and out on a tinny transistor radio. You can’t put it down or the station’s lost, you have to keep working the tuner, waiting–
What happened, did you catch that? Lindsey Nelson on the play-by-play, Ralph Kiner doing color: “Eleven strikeouts already for Seaver, and we’re only in the seventh.”