It's Mike Trout's trip to Flushing.

"When Magic Johnson was still playing for the Lakers, and the Lakers would make their one trip to New York City and to Madison Square Garden to play the Knicks, he always described it the same way.

'My one night a year on Broadway,' Magic said.

...

But now, because of Interleague Play, Trout gets another trip to New York this weekend, when the Angels play the Mets. It is a very big deal, because of Trout's big talent for baseball. The city receives a most honored baseball guest."

If I can make it at Laguardia Airpot / I can make it anywhere / It's up to you / Flushing, Queens / Flushing, Queens


"It is an occasion because of a Jersey kid named Mike Trout, who comes to the East Coast and gets to show everybody that he does things on a baseball field that Mickey Mantle did when he was the age that Trout is now, which means 25."

"... he does things on a baseball field that Mickey Mantle did when he was the age that Trout is now, which means 25."

This man is paid to construct sentences such as the sentence you just read.

"Certainly there is so much baseball to be played. So much can happen across the last three-quarters of the season, with the Astros and everybody else. For now, manager Mike Scioscia continues to have a front-row seat to the kid's genius or magic, none of which are ever lost on him. He never takes the kid for granted. You worry sometimes that everybody else does.

'It looks like he's doing things easier,,' Scioscia said the other day.

Then Trout hit another one against the White Sox before heading for the airport and heading East. At least the kid gets to play close to home this weekend. At least the new Mantle gets an extra weekend in New York this season."

I am sure at least 15,000 fans will bring the buzz at CitiField tonight.