I’ve always been happy to see Bronson Arroyo on the Sox, for complete non-baseball reasons. For one, he shares my birthday. For another, he’s fond of playing 90s alt-rock songs on the guitar, and one of the first songs I learnt to play on the guitar was the Stone Temple Pilots’ “Plush”.
Musical interlude: And I feel and I feel when the dogs begin to smell her… Will she smell alone?
So, I welcome Wily Mo Pena, former teenage baseball prodigy, young, and a possible big bat. But I’ll have to admit I’m sentimental about seeing Arroyo go.