We’re all inspired by different things. Some of us thrive on positive reinforcement, people shouting our names and reminding us that we can do it! Others power through adversity, rising nobly to challenges and challengers time and again. Then there’s the vindictive victors, the cantankerous cranks fueled by those who have wronged them.
Chris Flexen, despite his disarmingly wholesome visage, courtesy of individually dainty and diabolically protruding ears, appears to be the latter. Assuming, of course, that he reads Lookout Landing dot com, and saw the recap where I compared his last start to the passage of intestinal gas.