Re: Kylie's Misplaced Loyalties; There's No Crying In Baseball

[Layne Petersen <laynepetersen@earthlink.net>]

> kylie_wilkerson@spamhotmail.com wrote:
> "steve wrote: 
> 
>> Go Sox and Go Cubbies!
> 
> "Geez, (Perpetual Loser) Cubs.
> Did anyone else cry??"
> 
> There's no crying in baseball, unless you count the tears of joy that
> the curse of the goat stands.

I didn't cry. Felt like it, though.
> 
> "The Fish didn't deserve this one, we did."
> 
> Just because a fifteen minute old franchise doesn't "deserve" to
> humiliate the Cubs within the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field, it
> doesn't mean that it's not a good thing.

Um... Well, got to respond here. I've been a Cubs fan for about 25 or so
years, now. And wanted them to win the NLCS more than I've wanted anything
in quite awhile. But I have to say that they didn't deserve to win this
series. At least post-8th-inning-6th-game, they didn't, anyway. I don't feel
that the Marlins beat the Cubs. In game 6, the Cubs beat the Cubs. What a
momentum shift happened after that one freak play in the stands. I mean,
they don't give up the extra-inning home run in game 1 and it's a sweep.

I want desperately to blame Steve Bartman for their failings, but A-Gon's
error, and 2 straight games of Dusty leaving the starter in far, far too
long cost them this one. I don't believe in curses, but both LCSs went a
long way in making me rethink it.

And Grady Little did the exact same things that Dusty did managerially (?)
in costing the Sox the ALCS. Don't any of them watch each other's games?
> 
> "At least there's still one underdog in the game."
> 
> Maybe that game will have more of that old-fashioned headhunting and
> NHL-style brawling caused by those lovable curse suffering underdogs,
> who can't wait to grab Don Zimmer's watermelon-sized head, to throw his
> seventy-two year old body to the cold, hard ground.

If someone with a watermelon-sized head was charging at me, I'd probably do
what I had to do to make him stop as well. 72-year-old man or not. Sorry. I
can't feel sorry for Zim on this one. Can't feel sorry for anyone in that
dog of a game. No one was blameless. Sure, you can blame Pedro for playing
"NHL-style" baseball, but how about Jeff Nelson putting the smackdown on
some shmoe in the bullpen?

Just my rare $.02.

Layne

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