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The internet was made for some writers, and as good as he is in print, Joe Posnanski may be even better when given the infinite space of these internets to loll around in for a thousand words or so.
He’s in South Africa, and has beheld the diminutive genius of Lionel Messi in person. For the record, he thinks Messi is quite good.
He will be surrounded, completely blocked off, the play will seem ordinary, the action stopped, and your body reflexively relaxes. Nothing to see here. Only then suddenly, you realize that Messi is still going, still has the ball in control, is still heading toward the goal, and then he will get off a pass to someone open or get off a shot off that must have gone under someone’s legs or under their elbow or something. He does this absurd kind of thing multiple times in the game.
Quality reading to start your day off, to say the least, and the kind of absurd thing Posnanski does multiple times a month.
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