I’ve had a few favorite baseball players to follow over the last decade or so. Both came in with sky high expectations and regardless of how good they played for certain stretches, even years, reality never quite matched up with the expectations of the fans. Over time, those sky high expectations morphed into rock bottom despair. Every time up at the plate the expectation was failure, and any success was met with, at best, dismay, and more often, outright dismissal. Instead of celebrating the base hit, double, home run or great play in the field, the point of conversation would rest on the two other at-bats when the player struck out.
Texas Tech and “The Missing Tile”
