Former major-league reliever Mike Marshall claimed the 1974 NL Cy Young award thanks to his working a whopping 208 1/3 high-quality relief innings. A load befitting many sherpas, is what that is. Still and yet -- and as the following action-sports photograph (via @Super70sSports) will prove -- he maintained a throbbing sense of leisure all the while ... 

Yeah and also verily: Mike Marshall in the mid-1970s was doing all right when it came to doing all right.

The facial hair is not that of a railroad baron but rather that of a railroad baron who hasn't yet decided whether he'll attend tonight's Little Feat show or instead go to the crawfish boil on Larry's houseboat. Either way, he'll play it as it lies. 

The sunglasses suggest he can parallel park an F-15 Strike Eagle, which he could if it came to that. But it won't, man. The buffalo stance above? Or, if you prefer, his style of recline? It's called "Pool Table Bong Water Naughty," and it's as comfy and obliging as the velour split-bench seats of the Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency Sedan in which he slept off Saturday night's decisions. 

Sure, Mike Marshall will amble out there and give you 4.0 innings of high-leverage shutout relief. But that's not going to happen until this song's over.