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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
It’s not the end of Snarktober, but you can see it from here:
Do the Cubs know enough to be insulted by what the Dodgers pulled in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series?
Do the Cubs know they got pantsed on their home field on national TV?
Do the Cubs realize the Dodgers have so little respect for their offense that starting pitcher Yu Darvish batted with the bases loaded in the sixth inning of a two-run game?
The Cubs certainly didn’t respond as if they knew they were insulted. They didn’t respond, really, after the first inning. They didn’t respond the way the Dodgers did.
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1. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM (#5556968)The series has been embarrassing, for sure. I can't recall a playoff series where a team held a lead in each game yet looked so dominanted.
But I think this has a lot to do with the Dodgers being an excellent, well-rested team and the Cubs being a good, inconsistent, and completely gassed team.
SAMMY SOSA IS A FRAUD WHO POOPS HIS PANTS
by Jay Mariotti
Thau shalt not cheat. That's the first thing they taught you in little league. Hustle, play hard, worry about winning if it makes you play better, just have fun if it doesn't. Have fun, play within the rules, shake the other team's hand after the game, and we'll go for a tasty freeze afterward.
But don't cheat.
I don't know if they have little league down in the Dominican Republic, but Sammy Sosa must have missed that day of class.
Sammy was a hero to so many.
He was a hero to Edna Terwilliger, who has faithfully attended every home game since 1923 in spite of her blindness and the Cubs' listlessness.
He was a hero to Roberto Sanchez, a native of San Pedro de Macoris, who works the overtime shift at the meat packing plant just so he'll have the extra cash to come to come see his countryman in a game or two over the weekend.
He was a hero to my son, Jay Jr.
He'll be a hero no more. Sammy Sosa is a fraud and all of his accomplishments are forever tainted. The 500 home runs, the smile on his Hall of Fame plaque, the race against McGwire during that magical summer of 1998.
Tainted. Forever.
Just when it looked like everything was coming together for one glorious season, with Dusty in the dugout and Prior on the mound and the Yankees coming to town for the first time in seventy years. Just when it looked like it was safe, for the first time in a long time, to believe in this franchise. Just as the calender had turned to June - Cubs fans dug in, waited for their pitch -
And took a collective beanball to their head.
Sammy Sosa is a fraud who poops his pants.
There is no joy in Wrigleyville today.
-JM
It is?
Apparently not, which is why I referred to it as "Mariotti wannabe." Definitely consistent with Mr. Poopypants's M.O.
While it's a free country and all, I wouldn't spend too much time factchecking a parody of a Jay Mariotti column.
Right, but 5 was responding to a line from my copy and paste in post 3, which is a Mariotti parody.
Well, they were leading by 2, and Darvish had a very low pitch count through only 5 innings. Yes, I know what the simulators will say - you increase your win probability by pinch hitting and going to the pen.
But I'm feeling a little whiplash here. Not too long ago the idea of pinch hitting for an ace starting pitcher in such a situation would have been the controversial move. I don't mean 30 years ago, I'm thinking more like 3-5 years ago.
"Get your finger out of your nose!"
Unfortunately, that's pretty common in the news business, in print or online, especially in sports coverage. No reason to follow that format here, so let's tighten up those excerpts. BBTF space is valuable.
This is an artifact of the transition from print to online. Those one sentence paragraphs look fine in columns, and are encouraged so as to avoid the wall-of-text effect on the printed page, but look terrible online. Don't blame the writer for this, but rather whoever did the formatting.
Edit: I found an article from 2003 talking about he parody. http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2003/06/a-laughing-matter.shtml
Having read this, I went back to look. First series I looked at was the 2013 WS. In game 5, winning 2-1 in the 7th inning, Jon Lester batted with runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. Would he have batted had there been 2 out? Don't know, but again, WS tied 2-2 vs LCS up 2-1, 7th inning vs 5th inning, up by 1 vs up by 2. The Lester AB was much higher leverage.
If you go back even further, it also made for easier cutting on the page with the exacto.
Short graphs were encouraged by most of my editors.
What I love about that Mariotti parody is I can never remember if it was a parody or the real thing. Also, Rosenbloom is awful.
In the 2012 NLCS in game 2, Matt Cain batted in the top of the 6th with 1 on and 2 out when losing 2-1.
You may recall that did not go over well in these parts.
More inexplicably, Brandon Workman (the Brandon Workman) batted with one out in the top of the ninth of a tie game in Game 3.
(Whoops, missed Misirlou's comment on Lester).
Seriously ... the man has 107 career IP and has given up just 47 hits but 55 walks. He does give up a lot of HR for a guy who doesn't give up hits but my advice to almost any hitter facing Edwards with the bases loaded is to stand there and hope he walks you.
Heh. Sorry to burst your bubble, man!
OK, so now that you've told us about Carlos Marmol, what are your thoughts about Carl Edwards Jr?
The 2nd thing they teach you is how to legally cheat.
I feel like I've been lied to for 14 years. And holy crap, I've been on this website for 14 years.
It was definitely noted here, and if I recall Darling brought it up on the broadcast as well, as not being predictably helpful to Carl.
It was scotto, right?
At least we've all got the warm memories of conversing with Larry Bowa to hang onto...
Haha. Love “Larry Bowa.”
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