It was an asshole casserole for Hernandez's team and mine last night in bezbol. Both against heated division rivals. Both at home. Both with our best starting pitchers on the mound.
The Mets blew a 5-2 lead by giving up 6 runs in the top of the 9th to the Blunts, and the Cardinals gave up 3 in the last few frames to lose to the Brewers, (whom we'll come back to.) I'm pissed, but Hernandez is screaming, jumping up and down & beating his head with a Nerf bat. And really, he should be. Firebeaner Billy Wagner was nursing a twisted sister and could only helplessly watch as his bullpen teammates gave a huge lead away. It just hurts...right here.
These games, pretty damn crucial, were failures, but more. They were cosmically linked. A multi-dimensional* triangle with the 2006 NLCS Series between the Cardinals and the Mets. (*Multi-dimensional can mean 'two-dimension'.) Jeff Suppan pitched against the Cards last night (for the Brewers) and against the Mets (for the Cards) in 2006. Jeff Suppan homered off Steve Trachsel in Game and shut the team down in Game 7 in Shea. Some sort of retribution was being doled out by an unseen force through the dull, balding spectral that is Jeff Suppan. He pitched pretty good last night.
Back in New York, they were beat yet again by Pokemon character So Taguchi (well, he actually tied it). The last time So Taguchi stung the mets? Oh, that's right, my friend, Game 2, 2006. Homered! Against? Billy Wagner!
And do you know how I know this? Because I'm Keith Fucking Hernandez.
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Back to the Brewers', they have made a couple big moves recently, first acquiring last year's AL Cy Young winner CC Sabathia and just yesterday picked up 2b Ray Durham from the Giants, who's one of the better-hitting second basemen in the National League. These Brewers are serious. They're probably losing a couple of their best players next year for salary reasons, and they want to win now. And I kinda hope it happens, because that means the Chicago Cubs blew it again. On their 100th anniversary, when everybody's picking them. I would laugh all winter long.
And if they don't win this year, their fans are going to be miserable. 100 years of failure. Next year, Alfonso Soriano's song as he walks to the plate will be 'One Hundred Years' by the Cure, which is a mopey one. Cubs fans will be truly, truly miserable. They will have seen, held and known true failure.
And then, you know, we can ask them what it feels like. And then make fun of them.
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This post was all true three days ago. But now that the Mets took the next two games to win the series I can laugh about it.
And I can join my compadre in laughing about the Cubs too because, well, just because.
Next up for the Mets? Hey, whadaya know - it's St. Louis at Shea! Maybe Keith and I will get into a fight.
With each other.
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