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Meanwhile, the Mets are trying other ways to get Finch into a more positive frame of mind about baseball. Inquiries among American lamaseries (there are more than 100 Buddhist societies in the U.S.) have been quietly initiated in the hope of finding monks or priests who are serious baseball fans and who might persuade Finch that the two religions (Buddhism and baseball) are compatible. One plan is to get him into a movie theater to see The Natural, the mystical film about baseball, starring Robert Redford. Another film suggested is the baseball classic It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray Milland as a chemist who, by chance, discovers a compound that avoids wood; when applied to a baseball in the film, it makes Milland as effective a pitcher as Finch is in real life.

Speaking of literary pranks- if you haven’t read George Plimpton’s masterful ruse on the readers of Sports Illustrated, “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch”, today’s as good a day as any.

The Chicago Tribune has a worthwhile follow-up to the Sidd Finch story this morning with a couple of good chuckles in it, including Don Zimmer saying, “I don’t know anything about that Met from Tibet.” Plus, “[they] also hid a big clue in the story’s secondary headline: the first letter of each word spelled ‘Happy April Fool’s Day.’”

 Aw, shit I forgot all about Sid Finch.  The Mets are going to be AWESOME this year.