Just finished watching @KenBurns remarkable documentary on Muhammad Ali. This photo is from 2010 in the #SFGiants' spring training clubhouse. I'm obviously honored to be in the photo, although I was troubled at the time because he had just taken so many pictures with players.... 
... Bochy, staff, etc... and he seemed tired. He toured the Cactus League getting players to sign up for Athletes for Hope and commit to community service. He couldn't speak by then, or barely did. So many players wanted Ali to shake a fist at them for their photos, and he ...
... obliged them all. I felt bad watching all that because it seemed like this great man, ill with Parkinson's (and with six years left to live, it turned out) had become some sort of prop. But watching the documentary, I realized that even in the throes of this terrible ...
... disease he felt a need to serve a higher power, which he was doing in Arizona. Every player signed up. How could they not? How many of them followed through on these community service pledges, I don't know. Also pictured: @JanieMcCAP, @extrabaggs and @goodforball.
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