Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com has a must-click story about reliever Pat Neshek, who is representing the Phillies at the All-Star Game.
On the surface it’s about how an unlikely All-Star is taking it all in. We’ve read a million of these. But Neshek’s story is deeper than that. It’s about how his three children are with him in Miami, making it a true family affair. It’s also about his oldest son Gehrig, who died less than 24 hours after he was born. Neshek talks about that as best he can, but he obviously can’t talk about it too deeply, even years later.
As we said with the Cabrera post this morning: these guys are not gladiators, robots or avatars, put on a field for our amusement and nothing more. There’s often a lot more going on with them. Stuff we couldn’t imagine. Stuff, absent stories like this one, we’d never know.
