Nick Adenhart, R.I.P. (Hal Cohen)

[Tace]

Nick Adenhart

Hal Cohen -- World News Trust

April 11, 2009 -- I am a huge baseball fan. More accurately, I am a huge New York Mets fan. However, I do love baseball. I also have a reputation, neither earned nor deserved for knowing a lot about baseball. I personally never claimed this supposed massive knowledge of the sport, but I do know who Nick Adenhart was.

Contrary to my friends’ opinions, I do not obsess about baseball. I’ll watch a game regardless of participants if its on. I play fantasy baseball. I am more than happy to call on my fantasy league opponents to attest to my actual lack of knowledge about players -- but I do know who Nick Adenhart was.

Whenever people ask me a question about baseball, and sometimes I’ll walk into a bar to, “Oh good, Hal’s here. He can settle this,” I know the answer. This is not due to my intense passion for the game, but rather due to a perverse reverse Murphy’s Law where people only ask me questions that I happen to know the answer to. No one’s asked, and yet I do know who Nick Adenhart was.

Without Google, I feel confident that I could name the Mets current 25-man active roster, but not the 40 man roster. I could probably name the Yankees starting lineup and most of the starting rotation. I know the names of most of the Aces (for the uninformed, that’s #1 starting pitchers for each team), but I might not be able to place them on the correct team. Be that as it is, I still know who former Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Adenhart was.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. I love me some Mets. I worked in their AAA ballpark. Mookie even followed me to Toronto. nt