Friday BP: Brandon Crawford says goodbye

Photo by Brandon Vallance/Getty ImagesWe’ve known for a while that Brandon Crawford had almost surely played his last game with the San Francisco Giants. And we’ve known for a while that he was still going to try and play more baseball games with a different employer. And earlier this week, we learned that it would indeed happen, as Crawford signed a one-year, $2 million Major League deal with the St. Louis Cardinals.

We were prepared for it. We are happy for him. Very happy, even. But it’s still hard to see.

We’re all cutting onions like that scene in Julie and Julia where Julia Child dices an entire bag of onions just to prove that she can. And Crawford added some onions directly on our…