Come the first Saturday in June at Belmont Park, Zito had a history of misery.
Each image has a caption: "Misery doesn't want company, happiness does" or "We are not entirely unfaithful, we are just faithful to something else".
What might well, as the author has acknowledged in interviews, have been a "misery memoir" is instead a gutsy recital of all the wildly inappropriate jokes, crockery smashing, extramarital dalliances and unheroic efforts to escape child care in which two terminally stressed-out parents can indulge.
Speaking of teams that have had a long record of misery before experiencing some success this year, consider the Pittsburgh Pirates, who hadn't fielded a winning team since 1992.
Luckily, he had a companion in his misery when Andy Johnson put Birmingham's sixth kick almost straight at Westerveld to give Liverpool the match.
It'd be one thing if this practice of confining people in cramped, isolated cells worked if all the loneliness and human misery had a point.
"If misery had a face or body or any type of appearance, than it would probably look like United States Penitentiary Hazelton," Andre Cooper, a man serving three life sentences in Maryland for racketeering, drug dealing, and homicide told VICE via email.
Like blood and sweat and feet and open sores and, if misery has a smell, like misery".
I've always had an aversion to misery memoirs.
If the legs hadn't been up to the task, it would have been a misery.
