Oct. 3rd, 2008 08:55 am
Hey, Cubs, WTF?
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i_calql8Is this the team I cheered for, these past six months? The 'every game, a different hero' team? The first to get postseason berth two consecutive years in a century? Are you kidding me?
Okay, let's recap...Game One was going along nicely. DeRosa hit a 2-run dinger that was cross-winded into the right-right-right field basket, giving us the lead.
Then Ryan Dempster, normally indestructible at Wrigley, proceeded to channel pre-glasses Ricky Vaughn and walk half the frikkin' team, then grooving one that ended up in center field for a grand slam. So long, lead. Then our bats go sleepytime, and we lose by a score I have no desire repeating.
Game Two...good God, it was like watching bad slapstick comedy. To be fair, Z had his 'A' stuff. He deserved better. It all came down to the second inning.
Runners on 1st and 3rd, no out. Z strikes the next guy out, and we have hope. That hope increased when we saw a routine double play grounder hit to DeRo...which he booted. 1-0.
Then another fairly routine potential inning-ending ground ball to D.Lee. Inning over? Nope, he muffs it off the heel of his glove. Bases loaded.
Then Joe Torre played with our minds some more by having the next batter execute a perfect squeeze bunt. 2-0, bases still loaded.
And finally, the icing on the tombstone, and as is often the case when a pitcher has to get five outs instead of three to complete an inning, Z gave up a bases-clearing double. 5-0, season pretty much over. The final score was 10-3, and eventually, every infielder contributed one error each. Fukudome swung at pitches in his usual rusty-gate form, and everyone else was being suckered by low-and-away stuff. Lou says he's benching him for the remainder of the series, but he was nowhere near the big problem.
Instead of a different hero every day, it seems it's now 'a different goat every day'. And I know I'm not alone in asking 'WTF just happened?'
Now the Cubs head to L.A., hopefully for a sparkling comeback, but more likely for a mercy death. Game 1, the pitching stunk. Game 2, the fielding tanked. Game 3, most likely will be a batting problem--I half-expect to see the Cubs no-hit Saturday.
Unbelieveable. And nowhere near the good kind.
Okay, let's recap...Game One was going along nicely. DeRosa hit a 2-run dinger that was cross-winded into the right-right-right field basket, giving us the lead.
Then Ryan Dempster, normally indestructible at Wrigley, proceeded to channel pre-glasses Ricky Vaughn and walk half the frikkin' team, then grooving one that ended up in center field for a grand slam. So long, lead. Then our bats go sleepytime, and we lose by a score I have no desire repeating.
Game Two...good God, it was like watching bad slapstick comedy. To be fair, Z had his 'A' stuff. He deserved better. It all came down to the second inning.
Runners on 1st and 3rd, no out. Z strikes the next guy out, and we have hope. That hope increased when we saw a routine double play grounder hit to DeRo...which he booted. 1-0.
Then another fairly routine potential inning-ending ground ball to D.Lee. Inning over? Nope, he muffs it off the heel of his glove. Bases loaded.
Then Joe Torre played with our minds some more by having the next batter execute a perfect squeeze bunt. 2-0, bases still loaded.
And finally, the icing on the tombstone, and as is often the case when a pitcher has to get five outs instead of three to complete an inning, Z gave up a bases-clearing double. 5-0, season pretty much over. The final score was 10-3, and eventually, every infielder contributed one error each. Fukudome swung at pitches in his usual rusty-gate form, and everyone else was being suckered by low-and-away stuff. Lou says he's benching him for the remainder of the series, but he was nowhere near the big problem.
Instead of a different hero every day, it seems it's now 'a different goat every day'. And I know I'm not alone in asking 'WTF just happened?'
Now the Cubs head to L.A., hopefully for a sparkling comeback, but more likely for a mercy death. Game 1, the pitching stunk. Game 2, the fielding tanked. Game 3, most likely will be a batting problem--I half-expect to see the Cubs no-hit Saturday.
Unbelieveable. And nowhere near the good kind.
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