Pernia: The day MacKenzie Gore baptized Mexico’s new baseball cathedral
From Octavio Hernandez Pérnia at FanGraphs on March 27, 2019:
It’s been exactly one year since I moved to Mexico City from my crumbling Caracas, and I have to confess that it has swept me off my feet.
The food is great, the weather is awesome, it’s inexpensive. The people are kind, and every weekend it seems that you have something different to do. Not that I’ve accepted every offer, but there is still something pleasing about turning down opportunities just to get cozy on your couch.
However, this past weekend, Mexico City had an offer too good to pass up.
For the past couple of years, the citizens of this very religious place had been expecting the grand opening of a new cathedral, not for Catholics, but for the church of baseball we are so devoted to in this corner of the web. And on Saturday, that wait finally came to an end.
Read the full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-day-mackenzie-gore-baptized-mexicos-new-baseball-cathedral/
Originally published: March 29, 2019. Last Updated: March 29, 2019.