Fathers' Day means a whole lot of things to a whole lot of people. To baseball's best pitcher at the moment, it arrives with past and present converging, the hard break of a biting slider with the promise of what comes next.
Because the Oakland Athletics mostly serve as little more than background noise on the national stage, you probably will meet Sonny Gray for the first time at the All-Star Game. He should start for the American League. If he doesn't, maybe the FBI wants to look into that, too.
But before we get to Cincinnati next month, there is Father's Day, and there is Sonny's son Gunnar, born Jan.