by Michael Ceraolo
I was involved in a few controversies:
my initial signing out of college,
trying to keep my medical information private,
my ‘deficiencies’ as a manager,
and I was suspended once for punching an umpire,
but on the whole I think I was a solid citizen
But then as now
excellence by itself is often not appreciated
unless it’s accompanied by ‘color’,
which means self-hype or hype by others
I didn’t do that for myself,
and others did so for me rarely,
so I’ve largely disappeared from memory
But whether accompanied by hype or not,
excellence should never be out of fashion