I’ll give you three guesses as to what’s on the back of
this Felix Hernandez card that I (and by “I” I mean my 5-year-old daughter from
whom I hijacked this card to write about it on a blog) received while at Safeco
Field during a Mariners game.
Go ahead.
Are you good?
Do you have three guesses?
OK cool. I don’t want to hear about your guesses because
they are all wrong.
For real this is the back of the card. It’s a baby who is
maybe morphing into a butterfly, or vice versa … I’m not certain of the science
behind that process. Or maybe it’s a baby who has butterfly wings because it’s
a hybrid butterfly-baby formed in a BASF lab. Who knows. The point is:
baseball.
This card also asks the timeless question:
How can you make tomorrow love today?
which, ???????????????????????????????????????????????
Seriously though, how CAN you make tomorrow love today?
Let’s ask Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez.
Me: Hi, King
Felix. I was wondering, how can you make tomorrow love today?
Felix Hernandez:
I don’t know for sure, papi. Maybe, like … if we channel our hopes and dreams
into our current state of consciousness, we can marry anticipation with the
present and experience a slice of heaven on earth. Like this … (blows on passing butterfly, which turns
into a baby and lands in my lap)
Me: Uh, what am I
supposed to do with this?
Felix Hernandez:
I don’t know … raise it? Listen, are we done? I have to pitch a baseball game
now.
Me: (raise child as my own, grow to love it, it eventually
teaches me how to make tomorrow love today)
Child: Welp,
looks like my work here is done. (sprouts
butterfly wings and flies toward the sky)
Me: wtf
