What kind of broom should we sweep the Mets with today?
This Old Tymey one? Or This Broom would be fun to sweep with! Not!!
But I'm partial to sweeping the Mets with Orlando Broom.
Whichever broom we pick, it'll be nice to finally sweep a 3 game road series.
Now about yesterdays game....Cubs Win! 5-2!! But...and this is a huuuuge but, the Cubs, individually speaking, left 35 men on base. 35!!!! Starlin Castro left 9 on himself! Though he did drive in two with a bases loaded double in the 8th. He also struck out 3 times, thus the 9 left on base. Wouldn't it be great if it was exciting to see Castro come up with the bases loaded? Like it was when Aramis Ramirez or Derek Lee? Ahh... the many faces of Starlin Castro's Strikeouts....
"The Pout"
"The Bat Break Fake Out"
"The Mic Drop"
Oh, Starlin...will you ever hit again?
The Cubs were 3-18 with runners in scoring position, so basically the final score should have been 12-2. So great, Cubs win! But it just didn't quite feel right. Good thing Scott Feldman was killing it yesterday, 7 innings, 2 hits, 1 run. The thing that gets me, is as soon as a guy is doing really well, everyone on Twitter wants to trade him for some prospects. Do you know how many prospects end up being busts? At least 50% of them. Probably more. Also, don't factor out the intangible element of playing together as a team, and just simply knowing one another over a period of time. If you have constant roster shakeups, and trade away all your players that are having decent years, you're ensuring a lot more losses after August, and a furthering of the Cubs losing culture. So, don't trade Feldman, or Garza. We have a great pitching staff, and you know that at least one of them is going to get injured and be out for the rest of the year. Y'all ready for Brooks Raley again?
This game also saw a crazy play in the 9th, where the Cubs almost got triple played, except for the Mets ineptitude at turning it. The centerfielder Lagares caught the ball, but it was ruled a trap.
The Cubs runners froze, Lagares then threw to second. The umpire ruled "Safe", but there was a force out from first, so the umpire was wrong. Again.
The force is now off at third and home because of the out at second. They threw home, thought there was an out there. There wasn't. Then threw to third where David Wright thought he had another force out. He didn't. Wellington Castillo was stupidly standing off the bag at third, so if Wright tags him, it's another out, but David Price whispered in his ear to get back on the base, which he did in the nick of time.
Why in the hell would you be standing off a base? Ever? Just dumb.
So, bases loaded, no outs, and the Cubs don't score. I saw that happen in Pittsburgh in a 1-0 loss. That also was terrible. I hate it.
However, Castillo did upend Jordany Valdespin, who has a great fashion designer name if the baseball thing doesn't work out.
Good hard clean baseball!
Let the sweeping commence! Matt Garza pitches today, and hopefully it goes better than last time when he got shelled by the Reds for 9, count em 9 runs!
And the Cubs hitters are up against Jeremy Hefner, who is 1-6 with a 4.11 ERA. This idiot went to Oral Roberts University, so I think I probably hate him. I hope the Cubbies send him to kingdom come! Which this moron probably believes he's going to when he dies. The fool! At least he's a righty, so we don't have to watch Scott Hairston try and hit in Dale's crappy lefty lineup. He's been better, but still pretty awful
Tomorrow, I head to St. Louis to watch the Cubbies in enemy territory! I'm scared. Won't you please use the amazon search bar at http://www.sonranto.com to help me with tickets, pepper spray, gas and beer?
Also, check out my article on Bleed Cubbie Blue!
Really appreciate it! Go Cubbies!!
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