From CBSsports.com: Neither one of them remembers the first time they met. To Ryan Theriot and Mike Fontenot, the Chicago Cubs’ Cajun Connection double-play combination, it just seems like the other one was always there, like a favorite old pair of jeans.
“High school, maybe?” says Fontenot, the lefty-hitting second baseman from Slidell, La.
“All-Star games in high school?” says Theriot, the high-batting average shortstop from Baton Rouge, La. “You hear about guys, and then when you play in the showcase games [for professional scouts and college recruiters] you just meet them in passing.”
Theriot and Fontenot have always fit together like infield dirt and chalk. But over the years, chalk fades away. With these two, there is no fading away. There are only headfirst slides, clouds of dust and coming back for more.
As the Cubs take aim again at that elusive World Series crown, their gritty double-play combo comprises one of the most unique tales the game has to tell this season. Theriot and Fontenot played shortstop and second base on Louisiana State’s College World Series championship team in 2000.
Now, nine years later, here they are, together again, in Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Same dance around the second-base bag. Only the stars are bigger and brighter.
Those who watched them every day at LSU still cannot believe it.
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