I enjoy your writing and viewpoint immensely. I know you’ll beat this cancer just like the Yanks will beat the rest of baseball in winning the World Series in 2009. Go get ‘em.

I’ve always enjoyed reading your blog posts. Here’s hoping you make a speedy and full recovery! Have a Merry Christmas!!!!

I just read about this over at Pete Abe’s blog. It’s a bad break, my friend. But I know from your writing that you believe there is more to life than what we can see, that there is a higher power keeping the human soul alive and striving despite the many hard knocks. I know you will be able to deal with this. You and your family are in my prayers.

Murph

Todd you make everyone around you better and are the consummate professional while never complaining or asking for credit. We consider you a national treasure much like the bombers you so adore. We look forward to your triumphant return!

Thanks to everyone at Bronx Banter for your support. I’ll be fine because I’m already wearing my Derek Jeter T-shirt. The Captain always brings everyone home.

um, i’m not sure where to start. from the time i woke up, i’ve been looking forward to reading “baseball and me.” it’s been a long day and i’m just getting around to it. halfway thru, i had to jot down the amazing sentence: “Baseball helps me forget and it makes me remember.” i can totally relate to that. i put it on a piece of scrap paper and filed it in my computer desk drawer, probably near an Alex Belth quote i liked and wrote down a coupla years ago.

i was already feeling terrible for you and shaking my head about your parents and was remembering your post about your grandfather from last month. when i got to the news about you, i just kept shaking my head and saying “WHAT?!?!?!?!” aloud, over and over. it didn’t compute. and then it did. and now i’m crying.

i suffered through a mess of medical maladies earlier this year and for most of the year. scariest shit i could ever have imagined. and it changed my perspective. at one point, the ‘C’ word was mentioned. turned out, everything i had was scary for certain, but not super serious in the long run, and i’m fine.

i can’t begin to tell you how hard i hope you will be fine. i’m not a religious man in the slightest, but i will be thinking about you every single day and asking the universe – no, demanding – that you can keep this in check and be healthy.

i’ll be in NY the first weekend in ’09 visiting my grandpa. probably too soon to come visit you in the hospital, huh???

hang in there, my friend! best of luck, you WILL be fine!!! i simply CANNOT wait to see you in the batters box again, proverbial pen in hand, scratching out life’s sentences here for Shadow Games!!!

all the best, pal.

Nah …. its about Frank Viola’s attempts to become an astronaut …

And speaking of baseball…. we know Cashman is trying to make his money go the furthest (not including CC and AJ of course), With CC, AJ, Wang and Joba as a pretty dynamite 3.75 pitchers, do we really need to spend $10m on Andy? I like Andy, but it really seems we are doing pretty well it pitching. I guess it’s only one year…. and maybe Cashman has a surprise bat coming, but having Andy as a #4/#5 seems like overkill.

And Todd… I’ll guess you are reading all kinds of ‘new stuff’ now. Have you heard/read anything about: Graviola

Sounds interesting.

Throw strikes. Then hit one out of the park for me.

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larry