Livo Memories

The first pitch. (By Toni L. Sandys - TWP) Last night's Livan Hernandez re-signing immediately made me scroll through some stories from April of 2005. Not that long ago, really--the stories are still on the Web, which really ruins the image of a dusty trip to the archives--but golly, does the tone conjure up a different era. Everything was soft and gushy and optimistic, bathed in that sweet RFK sunshine and the mild aroma of glorious stadium decay. No "Lerners Are Cheap!1!1!" cynicism. No NatsFail! carping. No quick mental calculations on the 105-loss pace. No Rob Dibble rants. It felt more like flashing back to the dead-ball era than to 2005. Me personally, I was wandering RFK as Livo's most memorable moment approached, but I stopped wandering as the first pitch grew near. I was standing near a bunch of D.C. officials somewhere behind home plate, and I remember