From the desk of HoraceClarke66...
One
of MLB’s national shills got so carried away with his chance to parrot the
party line the other night that he told us that, far from being in any way
illegitimate, this year’s champion of baseball will have gone through more
than any other champion ever has, and would be all the more deserving.
I
honestly can’t remember which one, if it was Joe Buck or maybe Jeff Francoeur,
who actually lauded the Astros for surviving “all they’ve been through this
year.”
But
in any case, it’s horsefeathers.
This
year’s winner will be a cheese champ, no matter who it is. That would have been
true for your New York Yankees—much as I still would have relished it. Hey I
love cheese—just as it will be true if it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers, probably
the best team-in-baseball-without-cheating over the last four seasons.
It
will be especially true for the Tampa Bay Rays. Much as I despise the sort of
baseball the Rays play, I have to admit they do it very well. But c’mon.
Without
Covid, they would not be playing in this empty, pleasant, utterly symmetrical
ballpark—save for the bizarre, rightfield overhang that penalized the tallest
man on the field in a deciding game (No, I am not over that. And I never will
be.).
Without
this peculiar playoff format, the Rays would not be playing without off-days—a
schedule that favors Tampa Bay with its deep bullpen above all, while
diminishing other teams’ strong starting staffs. They certainly would not be
playing a team with a losing record in the ALCS.
But
all that aside, you can’t be a real champ without the long season, the toughest
test in sports.
It’s
bad enough how much the importance of the regular season has been diluted for
years now. But 60 games?
Tampa
Bay sure looks like the class of the American League. But we can’t know that.
Maybe
that great pen full of lively young arms would have propelled them to the ALCS
in any case. Or maybe they would’ve broken down. Maybe one of the blood tests
for their miraculous new phenom, Arozarena, would’ve come back positive. Maybe
the league would’ve figured out the mouthy Mr. Brosseau.
Maybe
not. But we’ll never know. Cheese all the way.
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7 comments:
Go Rays.
Fuck you Altuve.
Are the Yankees trying to trade everybody because Hal is on food stamps again or because they're desperately trying to become the New York Rays?
HC66,
With all due respect, Judge colliding with the overhang in right field happened in the 5th game ....it wasn’t like he had never been out there before. 5 games and who knows how much practice time should be enough time to adjust to a new park. I only saw one replay, and I don’t think he would have gotten to it anyway...can’t take anything away from his defensive play in general, but he misplayed that one.
Yes, he should have know about it. But even if a player consciously knows about an impediment, it's a far different thing from being in a park where you play 9-10 times a year. It's still all the more difficult to keep your eye on the ball and know precisely where your feet are in relation to that ridiculous overhang. What IS that thing doing out there, anyway? They're lucky nobody's broke his neck on it.
I thought he had a chance—maybe you're right, and he didn't. But in any case, when you're the Tampa Bay Rays, getting to play in an empty, neutral stadium is an advantage.
Don’t want to belabor the point, but many parks have “unique” features... the Pesky Pole,the hedges at Wrigley, the domed stadiums with the impediments with the roof, sun fields etc. I agree the overhang is ridiculous, as is playing in empty, silent stadiums, but neither should have been a surprise, or an excuse for losing such a critical game.
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