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| look at him Scherzing up |
Among the many distinctions of Max Scherzer's perfectly obvious first-ballot Hall-of-Fame career, one that surely ranks highly is how, although he is obviously a total psycho, he is somehow only ever a psycho in a way that is only ever charming. He's really threaded the needle on that one! Excellent starting pitchers are often fairly off-putting people, as we know, but Scherzer's game-day-only, conspicuously off-putting persona contrasts with his super intense but affable everyday demeanor in a way that kind of just seems neat. For this reason and also a bunch of others, I'm glad he's back, and would feel that way even had he not been totally dealing Tuesday night against these Colorado Rockies who will probably be bad again this year, but who will not be lifeless; this is not an obviously awful team at all anymore, I don't think, and they are an interesting one for the first time in a while now that they are being run by Jonah Hill from Moneyball (remember how Paul's computer was pretty much its own character in the Michael Lewis original?). Scherzer allowed just the one run, on just the one homer, and was otherwise pretty much unassailable, while the Blue Jays bats, for their part, went a little more nuts than you might think in a game where they scored five, managing fourteen hits, which is really quite a few (literally everybody in the lineup got one, which is something I like all out of proportion when it happens). Good fun all around!
KS
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