morning coffee: An Introduction to Axelrod

A great read about one of the major players steering the storyline that will prove to be one of the greatest in American history: pulling an upset over the Clinton near-dynasty and leading a new generation of Americans into an Era of... (yes, it's become clichéd and yes, often times on Friday, I have moments of inspired optimism) ... Hope.

Source: Washington Post
Article: "The Player at Bat"

"David Axelrod first showed signs of chronic fan syndrome in the early 1960s in his native New York City. The initial symptom involved baseball. His dad had recently allowed the New York Mets (born 1962) to occupy the place in his heart long filled by the New York Giants (moved to San Francisco, 1957), and began taking his precocious son to games -- lots of them. "I was a big Mets fan," Axelrod reports. From the age of 8, when his parents separated, he spent weekends with his father, a ballplayer turned psychologist. "Most weekends we'd spend one or both days out at the ballpark," Axelrod remembers. A fan was born..." (Full Article)