Mets prospect Lastings Milledge has it.
The White Sox had it, and so did the Japanese baseball team in the WBC. (I bet you didn't know the Cubans were "divinely precise," despite all the fielding errors they made.)
The Yankees had it when they won, but lost it when they lost. Or maybe they lost because they had already lost their moxie. It's all so confusing.
The only thing I know is that moxie is more important than ever since Bud Selig has outlawed homeruns.
It's also just nice to see words make comebacks. When is the last time you heard the word "moxie"? When your grandmother said you were a "looker"?
Somewhere, a sportswriter writes that ARod is "vacillating"; the reborn word sweeps through the sportwriting world like pollen in a hurricane; it migrates from country to country like birds with the Avian flu; an intellectual mother lode is tapped as the collective unconscious imposes its will.
Ideas have wings. Even dumb ideas.
No comments:
Post a Comment