My favorite KC quote

Constantine is a great quote. I wish I'd kept my favorites but I was cleaning out my microrecorder today and ran across this one again, which was from after The Darcy Kuemper Game a few weeks ago where he got his first pro start and the team played great and got the win at home.

It really resonated with me as an "athlete" and as a human, but is also quite representative of the kind of thought KC put into answering our questions, into the game, into his players. Stuff like this is why I loved talking to him after games.

“The beauty of the game is every new day and every game is another opportunity to perform and to display your talents. And we realize, at the end of the night, you have the unavoidable feeling of either satisfaction and pride--or a little bit of frustration and embarrassment. So, you have to go into the game knowing that, those feelings, one or the other is going to happen.”

As soon as they got a new GM in Minnesota, I anticipated that this was KC's last season here, so there's no surprise in this. But I am grateful for his time here, not only because he made this team immeasurably better, but as someone still learning the game, to learn from him in particular has been a real privilege.