Picture yourself in a log trailer roaring down a winding road, the brakes are shot and the driver is deliberating failure, redemption and happiness with a gleam in his eye as the truck takes out the guardrails.
Grab the dashboard and listen as Aaron Thompson reveals more about himself and his nomadic baseball journey.
"This is such a stupid game," says the Twins' workhorse left-handed reliever. "I'm just a monkey with a ball of yarn. I'm throwing it to a monkey with a stick. And that's fine."
A decade after the Florida Marlins drafted him as a first-round starter, Thompson finally has an identity pitching for his fourth organization, a situational lefty who helped key the Twins' first-place surge during the first two months of the season.