RIP José Fernández | Our Game

He was electric and played with game with the joy of a young kid, the way you're supposed too. And he was taken away far too early. RIP Jose Fernandez.

http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2016/09/25/rest-in-peace-jose-fernandez/

Rest in Peace, José Fernández

To An Athlete Dying Young, by A.E. Housman

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

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Matt Cain returns after twelve month layoff

This is the perfect remedy to remove the bad taste of the last two games in Miami. Matt Cain versus Jose Fernandez in The Rehab Bowl. Plus it doesn't get much better than a nooner in Miami, I tell 'ya. We shall see which of the two aces on the mend comes back closer to form.

from LA Times:
Marlins' Jose Fernandez returns to action against Giants and Matt Cain - LA Times:

The NL rookie of the year at 21 in 2013, Fernandez was the Marlins' opening-day starter last year, but his ascent was interrupted by an elbow ligament injury that required reconstructive surgery. He won't be the only pitcher making a comeback Thursday — his opponent, Giants right-hander Matt Cain, will start for the first time since July 2014.

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It's good to see Fernandez back as well. Between him and the Mets Matt Harvey, I don't know of two more exciting pitching prospects to hit the league recently. Except maybe the Mets Noah Syndegaard....and maybe the Mets Steven Matz....Hey wait a minute, shouldn't the Mets be less of the Mutts with all this good pitching? IDK, maybe that's why they are still the Mutts.

Anyway, it's a pitcher's league now, that much is clear. Not a day goes by it seems that my iPhone isn't updated with some pitcher or another pitching a no-hitter through six innings or more....and that includes games from outside the greater Tampa Bay area. What's up with that Rays?

Welcome back Matt Cain!! It's been too long.