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The ball was in the air, disappearing into the kind of white clouds Norman Rockwell loved to paint, and Derek Jeter watched it the way a child watches a runaway balloon floating across a midsummer sky.I just threw up a little in my mouth. I mean, when you think of Norman Rockwell paintings, which one leaps to mind that even has a cloud in it? You may be more into Rockwell than I am, but I can't even think of one.
And with the deeply absurd lede to this article, the hagiography is complete: http://t.co/yx2xtbL
Update: I had this rubbed in my face on fbook :)~ (So, OK, there's one. It's still the kind of writing that makes people hate baseball and baseball fans. My congratulations to Derek Jeter, while I still dislike him intensely, are sincere. 3,000 is legendary.)