From our slightly obstructed view, Terrace Reserved seats behind home plate, The Lovable Lou Sears and I, Son Ranto witnessed a ball game where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Yes, 30mph wind was wreaking havoc upon any fly ball hit, too bad the Cubs didn't hit too many balls in the air. Yes. Starlin Castro's 9th inning fly out would have been a walk off grand slam, or a bases clearing double 2 innings earlier, but the wind started blowing in, and it was an out. Yes. If Darwin Barney had been playing second, or Valbuena would have tried to turn two instead of throwing home, the brewers wouldn't have scored 4 in the first. But that's what happened, and these are all excuses as to why we lost the game yesterday. Excuses excuses excuses.
This is going to a season of excuses. But I'd like to dig deeper. Why did Starlin Castro try to hit a homerun when he knew the wind was blowing in? I woulda settled for a single. Why is Brent Lillibridge on the team at all? Granted Barney's hurt and Javier Baez is not ready, but it would just be a few weeks, and we wouldn't have to watch Lilliput...the troll out there not fielding, or hitting! He's batting .000. His OBP? .000. The most exciting thing he's ever done for the Cubs was yesterday thrilling fielders choice. Another excuse, and over heard in the stands..."Barney would have gotten to that ball"....You know who else would have? Javier Baez, or Junior Lake.
Now here's the big mystery of the year. Why can't our catcher catch the ball? Beef Wellington's only been charged with one passed ball, but there have been numerous wild pitches and just straight up cross ups. Other, better defensive catchers would have gotten to some of those wild pitches. Sometimes. Castillo just straight up misses the ball with the glove. All I'm saying is, the whole battery looks shaky.
The boo birds were out for Carlos Marmol yesterday too. And the vitriol I heard spewing from the fans around me is unprintable. Here's my question? Do you want him to do well or poorly? Why boo the guy? He's already having a bad time of it? What if you were at work and having trouble getting something right, and everyone just came around telling you that you suck? Wouldn't that make it infinitely harder to do your job? I mean, Christ! It's not like we're going to win the world series this year. Let's just support these guys. It's our team. Team team team. Are you on it or just some drunken nay sayers?
Speaking of drunken nay sayers. The shadow unemployment in our society was well represented and explained yesterday, as on a Monday afternoon, unemployed alcoholics from all over the midwest showed up to watch the Cubbies lose this stinker of a ball game. They were quite hilarious though. And I look forward to recording these hilarious low lifes as the season goes on, and giving you out there who can't afford the 6$ to go to a game a window into how drunk Subs fans truly are. It's gonna be ugly people.
Speaking of the podcast...listen to it here... https://soundcloud.com/danny-rockett/son-ranto-home-opener. There's a problem with our itunes feed right now...in the process of fixing it....
Well...Lou Sears and I will be on a rooftop tonight getting shit faced if you wanna look us up....email sonranto@gmail.com , and we can commiserate in our misery....
Excuses excuses excuses.....
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