Excitement about Strasburg’s return cracks ballplayers’ cynical armor

Ballplayers master the appearance of cynicism. The years in the minors, the certainty of eventual injury, the grind of a career that can last thousands of games almost ensures it. Except on the occasions when they drop their armor entirely because the stakes are too high, the excitement too genuine.

For weeks in the Washington Nationals' bullpen, the same subject has kept coming up: the night, the game and the moment that Stephen Strasburg returns. And now, rain willing, it is scheduled for Tuesday night at Nationals Park. 

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Jon Cohen 06 Sep, 2011

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