Straw in the Wind

Me, a few days ago:

I can't wait for next year: Rizzo, Darnell, Decker and Tekotte will probably all be in the starting lineup, and I look forward to that.

Yesterday, Blake Tekotte got his first major-league start. He doubled, tripled, drove in a run and scored another as the Padres won 2-1.

Tekotte is probably the least promising of the four players I named. (Maybe it's five: there are two, unrelated, Deckers in the mix.)

Updating

Over on James Nicoll's liveblog, there's a discussion of the question, "Which living author would you select to do updated versions of the Heinlein young adult novels?"

It probably says something that my immediate reaction was to think of Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote".