The Hammock Papers: Animal.

15 August 2012

Animal.

Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has been around baseball for a while.

So for him to say Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera is the best hitter in the league ... that might be saying something.

Gardenhire had high praise for Cabrera after the slugger took the first pitch he saw from Cole DeVries opposite-field for a solo home run in the first inning Wednesday. Cabrera also had an RBI single later in the Tigers' 5-1 win.

“He’s just an animal," Gardenhire said. "I think he’s the best hitter in our league, as far as power the whole package, driving in runs, producer. I’ve said that for a few years, though.

"He’s so dangerous. Just to watch him. He hit that ball (on the home run) like a lefthander hits it. The wind was blowing in from there, and he’s just so strong. He seemed like he flicked it, but he’s a really good baseball player.”

With today's home run, Cabrera became the first Tigers hitter in history to hit at least 30 home runs in five consecutive seasons. On Tuesday, he reached 100 RBIs in a season for the fifth consecutive time in a Tigers uniform.

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."

DAN CAMPBELL