Thor vs. Arrietta tonight. The Cubs will attempt to even the series in Game 2 tonight, losing last night to a dominant Dark Knight. When it comes to pitcher nicknames, the Mets have the Cubs beat. Syndergaard is pitching on 3 days rest after a relief appearance in the NLDS. The dominant Arrieta, lacking in a nickname, proved he is indeed mortal in his last start. Can Arietta bounce back from his last start? Can the Son of Odin lay down the hammer? Can my kids leave my alone for 2 minutes to finish this?
Enjoy this bat flip after a Harvey bunt last night.
WHAT? A pitcher flipping the bat? What kind of evil has infected the venerable game of Baseball? Next thing you know, batboys and ballgirls (or vice versa) will be throwing down at one another, or something. How did this disrespect get into our game? Stamp it out now! Now, I say.
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If anyone has the authority to flip a bat, it’s the Dark Knight.
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I think the essence of being a Dark Knight is not needing permission.
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I got a Mets sticker as the prize in my Cracker Jacks last night, so I think the baseball gods have spoken. Go, Grandypedes! (Sorry, Cubbies. )
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PS. If I got the chance to bat in an MLB game, I’d freaking flip my bat on a strike out. Yeah, I struck out to Harvey, bitches!
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You’d flip your bat on an intentional walk! Or standing in the on-deck circle.
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Hell, yeah!
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I would as well, and with my luck, suffer the first bat flip self-inflicted concussion. “Oh, that was ugly. It appears the bat landed on her head when she flipped it, and she’s down. You know, you can watch this game your whole life and see something new every game.”
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And bros would say: see, women can’t play. For the sake of all women, stay away from the plate, clutz.
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Hope everybody saw this.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/alex-rodriguez-work-playoffs-world-series-fox-sports-article-1.2401813
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He has the worst voice. Who wants to listen to that?
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I think it’s one of two things. Either they’re trying to deflect the criticism they got( and are still getting) by putting Rose in there, or they just see this as just another way to boost their viewership. I mean, it’s not like there aren’t a bunch of other players to choose from, or anything.
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TBS has the worst crew ever. They are not funny. They are annoying. I can’t believe that’s the best they thought they could do.
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Murphy is hot right now!
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Wow, a curtain call on an HR. lol
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Hello? Is this thing on? Ok, talking to myself. Not the first time.
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I refuse to believe this is actually happening.
The game will start soon….
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It’s only the first.
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Maybe so, but it’s already feeling like a Knob Creek and Vicodin kinda night.
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Granderson!
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What a catch!
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Fuck Granderson in all his holes, preferably with a chainsaw wrapped in barbwire.
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He’s smoking!
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I turned to the game like 10 mins late. Apparently I missed all the action. 😦
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Muyphy went boom! Grandy man stole a homer! Thor has pretty hair!
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Murphy hit a ball that was maybe 3 feet into fair territory and barely over the fence.
It clearly counts, but it’s disrespectful to all genuine “boom”-quality HR’s to label that as a “boom”.
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Go take your Vicodin. You’re ornery.
Walking Murphy to get to Cespy? Interesting.
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I did take it already. I’m seriously considering taking another.
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Did they really just play a clip of a guy going “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
And I thought it couldn’t get worse than a FOX production…
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Ernie Johnson is actually making Joe Buck look good. His constant shortening of “postseason” to “post” should be punishable by a mutated strain of rabies.
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Maybe someone will drop another “mofo” tonight.
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Oh, I’ve dropped quite a few so far.
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Bite your tongue! Joe Buck is the Worst.
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JEAN RALPHIO FOR THE WIN, since the Cubs aren’t.
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That’s one of those shows I just missed while it was on. I keep meaning to watch it, but real life keeps getting in the way. Maybe I’ll find some time for it someday….
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Honestly, I can’t more highly recommend it. It’s a personal favorite of mine. All but the last season is up on Netflix. Watch it NOW!!!
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Murphy lost his nerve? Wow, that’s some kind of analysis there. So, Grandy > Murphy. Hmmmm, ok.
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Oh, eff the Viagra plug with the chick in the jersey tossing the football. Why don’t they make those things more realistic — maybe some disappointed housewives who sigh and turn on Outlander or something.
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I don’t miss commercials at all. The blank “commercial break in progress” screen is a thing of beauty to me.
I also don’t know what Outlander is. I assume its about a gay guy from Scotland who cannot die unless you decapitate him.
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It’s one of those period dramas that women watch for the sex — I mean “romance.” It purports to have historical accuracy, but puke! No, it’s about the hot sex.
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Is it kinda like Game Of Thrones? I’m a fan of the historical accuracy of that. I sometimes wish I’d been alive when dragons existed.
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I’ve not seen GoT. This is spunky feminist nurse goes back to the 1700’s Scotland…men in kilts…blah blah blah…she is forced to marry the hot virgin dude. It’s ridiculous. He has a great butt.
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That sounds like the type of books one of my exes used to read. Lots of words like “bodice” and “heat” and “surrendered”.
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I like the Outlander books, even though to be perfectly honest they are not always the best written. The author has a stick up her butt about “historical accuracy” but she’s constantly getting things wrong. Her main character is the biggest Mary Sue in the world – of all the characters in the book, and there are hundreds – Claire is the worst. But the subplots are interesting, and I genuinely love a couple of the characters, namely Lord John Grey and Roger. They are characters desperately in need of a better author.
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I don’t know what a Mary Sue is. I’m quite sure I could google it, but I have a weird suspicion that I would end up lost in some deep wiki-hole and I’m just not in the mood for that tonight.
I’m just gonna sit here, watch the Cubs go down 1-2-3 in the 9th, finish off this glass of whiskey, and then pass out in a pile of baseball depression.
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That commercial disturbs me. Why is she tossing a football? Who looks at themselves like that in the mirror? What team is she rooting for? I hate that commercial.
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Love Wanda.
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Holy fucking shit she is funny.
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I just got home from my trip. Now I’m wishing I would have stayed asleep on the plane and missed my connection, and travelled all the way to Boston instead of coming home to this crap.
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Sweeps are hard to do, you’ll be back home, and there’s still time. Everyone wants it to be competitive.
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Sweeps are indeed hard to do. Which is why being in a position where they need to win 4 out of the next 5 is far from optimal. Winning one of those first two was pretty damned important, especially considering who the Cubs had on the mound.
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I fear that after lying dormant in the cracks in the Cubs’ clubhouse shower room tile, the vent shafts and the buffet table, that dreaded prion-vectored Papuan neurological disease die Vloek van der Geitbok has become infectious again – possibly due to some incidental mutation in the fan base; possibly due to the cooling weather. In this case, the scouts may have initially contracted it by eating Theo’s brain, and now, here we go again. Watch carefully during game 3 for signs of spontaneous or unsubstantiable rictus grins on the faces of Cubs pitchers and batters.
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