Some days it’s my left knee flaring up. Some days it’s my left hip tweaking on me. In fact, some year before too long I’m going to have to have something done there, they’ve made so much progress with hip-replacement surgery. I have a lot of friends, many of them former baseball players, who’ve had hip replacement and they tell me they feel so much better and can move around way better. I’ll be on blood thinners through the 2015 season, so I’m in no rush, but within a year or two I’ll probably get that done. I tell you about some of my creaky parts not because I think anyone oughta feel sorry for me. Poor Boch! Oh no! But we all have our aches and pains, especially as we get up there a little in years, and yet you can’t let that slow you down. You’ve got to get out there and walk anyway. Sometimes the walking will loosen you up and make you feel better. That’s how it often is when I’m in Arizona for six weeks every spring. The dry desert climate is kind to the body, there’s no two ways about it.
