Sometimes a game is so full of badness, it ends up being great, like this little ditty from 1974. I enjoy baseball Twitter, especially the posts of statistical oddities and whatnot. These tweets, by people such as Doug Kern, Mark Simon, or Jayson Stark (among others) usually take the form of “The Reds haven’t hit four batters in an inning
Read moreThe problem is they don’t have the pitching to keep the other team from scoring runs. Last we checked, the team that scores the most runs wins.
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It wasn’t that long ago that the Brewers were the class of the division, the Cubs were trying to figure out a way back to the promised land and the Cardinals were just kind of a mess. Then an elephant got on the trapeze, some kid stole the clown shoes from Bozo and the bearded lady got electrolysis and moved to Ft. Lauderdale. All in all, nothing makes sense and predicting how this will play out? As the guy with the balloon animals says, “Fuhgedaboudit.”
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There’s a ship full of nice-looking young men just off the coast. Surely, they can be trusted to finish fourth, right? Right?
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Two NL Central teams will pull of some big moves that could totally fubar them for the forseeable future.
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Cubs fans could celebrate, but the Pirates could surprise. Phil Roeder via flickr cropped some rights reserved by the photographer
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Stargell, Milner, Garner, Madlock, Foli, Bill Robinson, Moreno, Parker, Ott, Lacy, Blyleven, Candelaria, Bibby, Don Robinson, Tekulve, Romo, Jackson. Add to that a recovering Rhoden and you have a team ready for domination.
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