people are talking like he is dead.

really.

who knows what a 10-time All-Star and 3-time MVP is thinking about in his last year during a pandemic, when he has been the topic of conversation about decline for TEN YEARS (that’s one hell of a decline!) 

maybe he is addicted to baseball?

maybe it’s the only thing his body can do?

can five homers and single in St. Louis revive his public soul?

for 10 years we have been hearing about this decline.

maybe he is the keystone lynchpin that connects baseball past to baseball future and he will be frozen and kept in the vaults of Cooperstown while a government look-alike assumes his day-to-day life.