Claude The Cat, 2004-2023

I don’t think I’ve ever met a human who cared more about baseball than I do. So it’s only fitting that I’ve never met a cat who cared more about baseball than Claude did. And he was around for half of my 38 years so far on Earth.

From March to November every year, he’d join me on the couch for my evening wind-down, hooking a paw around my elbow like an old friend throwing an arm around your shoulder. Sure, Claude got a feline thrill watching the scores scoot across the bottom of the screen. But I...