Jose Reyes And The Joy Of Baseball  For complete Mets news and
analysis, check out SB Nation's Amazin' Avenue.  Ok, first off,
yes, I'm one of those old stick-in-the-mud, crotchety types who
doesn't like newfangled things like all the dancing and twirling
that has infested baseball over the past decade or so or the
over-the-top antics of a Jose Valverde or Joba Chamberlain. But,
on the other hand, baseball is (or can be) a fun, entertaining
game. I, like most of you, work all day, all week long, and
whether it's in an office or wherever, for the most part your
job, like mine, is probably not fun, so we watch baseball to
escape from our doldrums. Which means the game should at least
be somewhat pleasurable and amusing. Of course, it often makes
us angry and frustrated, but that's another story.  Willie Mays
recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and there hasn't been a
player who played with more joie de vivre than the Say Hey Kid.
And he had a little hot dog in him thrown in for good measure,
what with his ba