In an April 2018 profile of Nolan Arenado by Robert Sanchez, Arenado’s parents, Millie and Fernando, describe their son’s reaction to the Rockies’ loss in the 2017 Wild Card Game. Millie says Nolan was “devastated,” but in the course of their conversation he lightly said, “It’s not like I’m going to jump off a cliff, Mom,”
The line got a lot of attention because it’s funny and shows a Platinum Glove winner having an ordinary conversation with his mother. Given where we’re at in 2018, however, the paragraph that follows is probably more important:
Back home in California this offseason, the freshness of the loss haunted him.