Everything in its right place.

A baseball team, a rock band, and me.

I sat in the backyard, with a travel mug full of coffee and the dogs in competitive zoomie mode, and it was quiet. I started mindlessly flipping through tweets and diving with intent, as I’ll do on lazy weekend mornings, into some compelling rabbit hole or another.

I landed on a 30-year-old video of 26-year-old Thom Yorke, playing an acoustic five-song set, without the rest of his Radiohead mates, at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto as part of its Tuesday “Nu Music Night.” Seven days after Yorke’s 24-minute concert, the band would release The Bends, their second studio album. Four of the album’s dozen songs — which, it’s evident from the video, nobody in the crowd had ever heard — were part of the quick Yorke set.

I thought to myself, what if I — also 26 at the time — had been one of the 400 people at the Horseshoe Tavern that night?

Stay with me here, if you would. There’s going to be a baseball payoff.

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