Source: www.splicetoday.com --- Friday, October 27, 2017
You flip through your Baseball cards and pretend you have a choice: you can be Ed Hearn or Jim Lindeman or nobody. If you’re Ed Hearn, you get to be on the 1986 World Series champion Mets but you also nearly die of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (try saying that two times fast). You get to appear in the shitty classic “Let’s Go Mets” music video, cut during that era when everyone from Vince McMahon to the Monsters of the Midway was cutting shitty classic music videos, but you also have to undergo two kidney transplants and wear a breathing mask when you go to bed at night. You get to tell your story on the motivational speaking circuit, but is it a story you really want to tell? You’re Ed Hearn: catcher, fourth-round draft pick, yet another one of the thousands of jockstrap monuments to what could have been. And if you’re Jim Lindeman, you have the honor of being the second best Baseball player in Bradley University history after Kirby Puckett, but second best is only one notch above Bryan Rekar, Mike Grace, or Bill Tuttle and who the heck are they (well, Rekar was in the Super Nintendo MLBPA Baseball game, so he was kinda somebody)? You’re a first round pick of arguably the best-run franchise of the 1980s, a potential big bat for the St. Louis Cardinals to complement the likes of Jack “The Ripper” Clark, but your only decent season in the majors is your second, in ‘87: eight homers spread across 207 at-bats, plus a World Se ...
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