- The King, from the Burger King spots, steps in against the Cubs' Carlos Zambrano and flashes that s***-eating grin. Next thing you know, he's taking one off the crown and he's got dirt all over his nice robe and that plastic beard. Cut to Zambrano, who -- being Zambrano -- has taken a few steps toward the plate and is holding his arms out in a challenging fashion. Cut back to the King, who slowly gets up -- still smiling -- calmly dusts himself off, takes pause to gauge the situation and then charges the mound ... to be continued
Rally-killer. The Oakland A's were hardly short on production in their 16-1 walloping of Minnesota -- with one exception: First baseman Daric Barton was hitless in four ABs and stranded eight runners.
Tip of the Cup. As much as I hate to do it, I can't ignore Manny Ramirez's heroics coming off the Dodgers' bench a day after stopping a fastball with his bare hand. His pinch-hit grand slam in the sixth beats the Reds. The kicker: It was Manny Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium. Dammitall.
More BS. My old man's favorite part of the game to critique (besides the commentary of Giants' TV analyst Mike Krukow -- but that's another post for another time). Four of 13 possible save situations were blown Wednesday: Bobby Seay, Detroit (4); Roman Colon, Kansas City (2); Dan Wheeler, Tampa Bay (4); Ryan Franklin, St. Louis (2). Closer, schmoser, as Dad likes to say.
Side note. The Yanks are now two up on Boston in the AL East.
About the closer schmoser; Whatever happened to the good old days when a pitcher who was doing good was kept in the game in the 9th to close it out himself?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like having an intern or med student come in to close you up after your well paid surgeon performed surgery on you.