I was thinking today about how Mauer is so stoic. He reminds me of Sam Jacobson. Another repressed Minnesota boy. If they Mauer could light a fire under himself! Show some emotion. Get mad. Line out and shout. Curse out a ****ing umpire for ringing him up. Something to show us fans that he cares.

But of he is who is he is. He can't change that. We'll never see that kind of fire in him. Sad, but true. Why wouldn't I be used to this by now.

Then the image in the video of Joe running the bases for his inside the park home run in a tee-ball game. How he laid out, mock-exhausted, happy, delirious, on the grass. I think that's the most emotion I've ever seen in him.