My 25th high school reunion is this weekend, and I’m headed back to Mattoon for it. This is a photo of me, my cousin Denny and my late grandmother, who I always assumed would outlive us all. Twenty-five years is a really long time and it is also...

My 25th high school reunion is this weekend, and I’m headed back to Mattoon for it. This is a photo of me, my cousin Denny and my late grandmother, who I always assumed would outlive us all. Twenty-five years is a really long time and it is also absolutely nothing.

Here are this week’s stories:

MONDAY
The Thirty: The Lowest Drafted Player on Every MLB Team (MLB.com)

WEDNESDAY
The Return of the 30-30 Man (MLB.com)
Roger Goodell Is the Prototypical Trump Enabler (New York Magazine)
Debate Club: Top Superhero Spoofs (SYFY Wire)

THURSDAY
Why the NBA Finals Has a Lot More Rematches Than the World Series (MLB.com)

THE WILL LEITCH SHOW

This week’s guest is Sydelle Noel! She is on “G.L.O.W.”! She was in “Black Panther!” Watch it here!

PODCASTS

Grierson & Leitch (subscribe in iTunes)
“Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and also “The Prestige.”

Seeing Red (subscribe in iTunes)
Bernie Miklasz and I grouse some more.

Waitin’ Since Last Saturday (subscribe in iTunes)
New show! Georgia softball, baseball, basketball and football.

Seriously: Twenty-five years. Wait until all of Grosse Pointe learns I’m a contract killer. Have a great weekend, everyone, and remember: Now, as they passed in review, called up one by one, I saw a double image: The same person in 1960 and 2010. The same smile, the same gait, the same body language, the same eyes. I was witnessing a truth. Within our bodies of 67 or 68 years lived all the people we had ever been or seemed to be. All the success, all the defeat, all the love and fear. We were all here.

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