old man

In 2012, the old man smiled and told Los Angeles he would lead the Dodgers out of bankruptcy and back to baseball’s promised land.

His staff did everything they could to make it easy on the increasingly addled old man.

I had only the vague memories of someone who had been a little boy at the time and someone who was a very old man now to go on, and nothing was coming up.

“My father, who just turned 90, made the typical old man mistake of hitting the accelerator instead of the brakes in his 1985 Cadillac,” Mike wrote.

It’s a performance full of repressed bitterness, and the pain comes through most clearly once Vicente recognizes that his kids will grow out of their unquestioned adoration for their old man.