No April Fools Day Is Complete...

[dgwphotography]

...without the Curious Case Of Sidd Finch:

http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/15/curious-case-sidd-finch

He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga�and his future in baseball.

[Frayed Knot]

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/04/01/115665866/april-fools-here-are-10-times-someone-fell-for-the-hidden-ball-trick

[batmagadanleadoff]

http://grantland.com/features/30-for-30-shorts-unhittable-sidd-finch-and-the-tibetan-fastball/

[G-Fafif]

Grantland 30 For 30 short is tremendously satisfying. See what Ronn Reynolds looks like in the 21st century!

Only nitpick: strange decision to use footage from '73 WS (Millan error, Willie pleading on Buddy's behalf) to represent the Mets going downhill in the '70s. Huh?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Are they suggesting that losing that World Series was the beginning of the end?

I think that more appropriate footage to show would be Joan Payson's funeral.

[G-Fafif]

I think they just went with whatever fit the moment in the film. They also used Doc from somewhere between 1988 and 1992 when they talked about him as a rookie.

The only people who'd notice this stuff are, as usual, the people who appreciate this kind of film the most in the first place.

[Edgy MD]

Chicken a la Monta�ez:

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