Sometimes, someone comes into your life for just a brief time, but manages to make an outsize impression. The fellow wedding attendee who has also escaped dry cake and the Chicken Dance for a beer and a slice in town; the seatmate on a cross-country redeye who is the only other insomniac on board; the person who is leaving just as you’re starting a new job, and on their last day you realize the two of you would have been best office friends.
Watching Edwin Encarnacion this spring, it seemed no wonder the Mariners weren’t able to trade him.