In 1985, Joaquin Andujar, a pitcher of considerable skill and absolutely spectacular imagination, was thrown out of a World Series game for complaining about a call. This was not exactly stop-the-presses news, but Andujar’s reaction to his ejection made him a legend. He stormed off the mound into the clubhouse and took a bat to several urinals, accomplishing what, under penal circumstances, would have been described as turning big rocks into little rocks. Even by the Bunyanesque standards of professional athletes, Andujar’s invention of porcelain fireworks was a pretty impressive display.
In times of adversity, I often think of Andujar and congratulate myself that I am handling my problems better than he. Exercising better self control than Joaquin Andujar is an admittedly modest accomplishment, but I’ve found that if you set the bar of success low enough, you can succeed on a fairly regular basis, and I rather like that.
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