But now that the Phillies, Red Sox and Marlins have let their fans down, the Dodgers have traded for their underachievers who are now considered saviors here.
Most of the time when a team acquires veterans who have been in a pennant race it’s considered a good thing. They have experience, we’re told.
Gonzalez, Beckett and Carl Crawford played for a beer-drinking, chicken-eating bunch of chokers a year ago that went 7-20 down the stretch, wiping out a nine-game wild-card lead and missing the playoffs.
But the thing Dodgers fans have to hold onto is the fact the Red Sox also sold Babe Ruth, who reportedly liked his beer and chicken as well.
Listening to baseball folks, there doesn’t seem to be any doubt Gonzalez will be a standout, one media type going so far as to say he will be the team’s most popular player by next year.
Last season when the Red Sox were eliminated, Gonzalez told the media, “I’m a firm believer that God has a plan and it wasn’t in his plan for us to move forward.”
That didn’t play well with many folks in Boston who thought he was looking for someone to blame, but I think we all agree that sports fans in Boston, and Philadelphia for that matter, are really weird.
Repoz
Posted: August 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM |
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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: August 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM (#4218456)God has a plan for the Cubs. The other 29 teams are pretty much on their own.
What's he writing about? The fan experience at games? How lousy and uninteresting the Dodgers were up till now? The crappy trade?
Nice two-sentence structure, too.
Ugh.
Not true. How could he see the keypad with all that egg on his face?
Love this. So many athletes thank God when they succeed but it's rare to see "Him" invoked for the failures.
most of the games i've been to have been real letdowns. i'll keep going, but it hasn't been a good year.
Apparently a VERY long-range plan.
Apparently a VERY long-range plan.
That assumes you know the plan.
The problems are all at the sentence-paragraph level; the almost complete absence of words that indicate some kind of causal, logical, developmental process of thought makes this extraordinarily hard to understand.
Of course, this is Simmers, so one can assume the absence of coherent sustained thought is not merely a writing problem....
It's "T.J. Simers".
Or did you mean his handle on the board?
...and what makes you think the plan involves success?
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