baseball crush

Looks like I'll be rooting for Toronto, at least some, in the post-season this year.  Never have much cared for them as a team, and especially disliked them in the magic year, 1989.  But now I have a visual/body-based crush on a ballplayer on their team---which is also an oddity, for me, as other than Mighty Joe's butt and how I noticed baseball player butts in their uniforms after that, I'm not much of an objectifier or even vague luster after these ballplayers I spend so much time watching.  Sure, I'm roughly a Kinsey 4.5, and probably at least mostly demisexual, so there's that in there too.

Anyhow, behold Addison Barger:

I want him to get hits cuz he's cute.  He looks like he's a nice guy.  His hair can get a little long, which is fun.
 

He's muscle-y, which isn't part of it, other than the general rounded shape of him that it influences (I like a pudgy player, as well as the speedy "slight" shape of the likes of one of my first ballplayer crushes, Willie WIlson), and I like a hitter for average with singles and doubles and timely hitting and using the whole field more than a power hitter, cuz home runs---however helpful and worthy of celebration when yer team needs them---are both fascist and comparatively boring.

My O's aren't going to be in the playoffs, so maybe I'll root Barger.

In other possibly sad news, Baltimore gave a new (power hitter) catcher a ridiculously long contract, leading to suspicions they might soon trade my 2nd fave, Adley, after trading my dear Ced at the deadline this year.

I'd like to tell them you gotta have heart, cuz they certainly don't have miles & miles & miles of heart.