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Deja Vu, Part 2!
The title even rhymes! Happy Father’s Day, first of all, to any fathers reading this.
You all know (or may not know) that my last post covered the fact that we lost 12-5 twice in a row. That hurts. Well, it happened again. We lost today by a score of, yes, 12-5. There were no errors; that was a bit of a shock, but I still feel like punching my computer. Even more annoying is that our number one pitcher, not Zack Greinke, but Gil Meche, lasted 3 and 1/3 innings and gave up 9 runs on 9 hits (remember, no errors, and he only gave up two walks). Even more frustrating is the fact that Albert Pujols knocked in half of the Cardinals’ runs. Yes, I know he’s arguably the best player in the game, I still hate it when somebody knocks in 6 runs and gets his team their second grand slam of the series. When will it end? The lone light at the end of the tunnel is that we aren’t the Washington Nationals, who just recently won their 20th game. We’re only 8 1/2 back! We aren’t 16 games back like the Nats! Oh, wait, what’s that? The Diamondbacks are 16 back, too? That’s irritating because they managed to knock in 24 runs to our ten in their last two games of the series.
The loss today brings our run total in the last five games to:
Them: 53
Us: 21
Now, scoring 21 runs isn’t bad, but giving up 53 is. Our average runs per game is 4.2, which is very respectable. Our average runs given up per game is… let’s just say much less respectable (10.6).
I’m too aggravated to go on, let me just say congratulations to Tony La Russa for his 2500th win, even if it did come against… *cough* the Royals.
Deja Vu
Imagine that title with all the little markings that are supposed to be there, and that’s the real title.
The Royals once again lost to the Diamondbacks, but it’s not us losing that’s odd. That’s normal. What’s weird about this is that we lost by the exact same score, 12-5. Now I can see a team losing 1-0 twice in a row or something like that, but 12-5 is such an unusual score that you hardly see it once or twice a month. Giving up 24 runs in two games, that’s just… pathetic. Not only that, we made three errors in each game. Three errors might not be that much for a little league team, especially one of the ones I was on, but for the majors it’s obviously a lot. We haven’t had back-to-back three error games since 2002.
Right when I thought we were turning a corner, apparently we forgot to turn on our blinker and another car with a license plate “D-Backs” plowed into us. Argh.
The good news is that we have the I-70 series coming up. We’re going to play St. Louis next so that’s not exactly good news, but it’s always fun when we play each other. Our football teams battle for the “Governor’s Cup” or something like that every year. I’m not sure about baseball, but we’ve lost two out of three against the Cardinals so far. The last time we met, there was another instance of Deja Vu, we lost 5-0 twice. It’s going to be entertaining. I was just watching some feature on the Today show about travel toys. I wonder how many MLB players bring magnetic pirate sudoku… or maybe that would be magnetic performance-enhancing drug sudoku. Sorry, I couldn’t resist that.
Re-turning The Corner (This Time, Backwards!)
Well, so much for turning the corner. We did terrible last night against the D-Backs, even with Greinke on the mound. Right now, I’m just really annoyed. I thought we were going to do so much better after getting out of this slump. It’s like Indian Summer, that warm spell after the first frost of the year, I think. Having a dad (Happy Father’s Day) who’s a meteorologist, he could probably explain it better. I just forgot why this even connects to baseball. Moving on…
Sammy Sosa using PEDs? Why didn’t they tell us this earlier? I’ve said this before, and I’ll probably say this again: Why now? He tested positive in 2003. They should probably tell us in 2003, then. I don’t think it took six years to get the results. It seems that someone high up in the majors wants to keep baseball in the news or something. Did they not realize that the only sports going on right now are baseball, the college world series, and soccer. The CWS is going to be over soon, and soccer isn’t exactly America’s pastime, though I enjoy a match now and then. I’m just getting really annoyed with all of these record holders testing positive for banned substances. Should we automatically suspect that somebody who breaks a record in this league used steroids? Let’s say Zack Greinke broke that scoreless inning record earlier this season. “Oh, wait, he probably used steroids!” (But more accurately, “Oh, wait, how can somebody on the Royals break a record without cheating?). If I hear any more of this, I’m going to crawl under a rock and not come out until October, unless the Royals start doing better.
Finally, last Saturday while I was Chocolatetown on vacation (Hershey) I walked by Hersheypark, the theme park there. What song was playing? Yes, Saturday In The Park by Chicago. Coincidence?
The World Baseball Classic… a classic?
Quite the game last night between Japan and Korea. Why would anyone pitch to Ichiro with two outs and the opportunity to get a force out at any base? I don’t know, but the last game of the Classic was one for the ages.
Now it’s time for the AL West preview… and since I’ve been gone for a week, I’m throwing in the NL West too. Two for the price of one!
AL West
- LA Angels
- Texas Rangers
- Oakland A’s
- Seattle Mariners
NL West
- LA Dodgers
- Colorado Rockies
- San Diego Padres
- San Francisco Giants
- Arizona Diamondbacks
And now it’s time for a little oddness…
According to MSNBC.com and the Associated Press, the manager of a pizza outlet discovered some legs hanging out of a vent above his pizza oven Monday morning, along with a voice yelling “Help Me!” The man said he’d been in the duct for five to six hours. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary. The full story is here…
My NCAA brackets are in the top 12%. I just picked them from the team’s names. Take that, so called “experts!”
NL Central coming up…
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