elly hit 2 HR
and the cubs blew a 6-0 lead to a team with no reason to try nice
including a non catch of a routine fly ball that would’ve ended the game
Brooks Robinson died. Here’s part of what Joe Posnanski wrote about him:
In high school, he was voted “Best All-Around.” You may ask: “Best All-Around what?” but there was no need for qualifiers with Brooksie. He was simply the best all-around. He was the quarterback who led his team to an undefeated season (then stopped playing football because he didn’t want to get hurt and not be able to play baseball). He was every teacher’s favorite student who in the eighth grade wrote a paper titled, “Why I Want to Play Professional Baseball.”
And he was a ballplayer, a Cardinals fan who idolized the nicest of ballplayers, Stan Musial. Later, Brooksie himself became the nicest of ballplayers. “Compared to this guy,” the writer Jim Elliot said of Brooks Robinson, “Stan Musial was hard to get along with.”
This lines up with a childhood memory I have. When I was 10 or 11 or so, my dad and I went to Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ because there were going to be some famous baseball players signing autographs. I’ve long lost the autographs (I think I had them sign a stupid memo pad instead of a baseball, like an absolute moron), and I’m not sure who all was there. I want to say it was Brooks Robinson, Whitey Ford, and Tug McGraw. Maybe some others. And maybe not Whitey Ford or Tug McGraw. But it was definitely Brooks Robinson. And the thing I remember about that day was that we got everyone’s signature, and I guess we were towards the end of the scheduled signing period because Brooks Robinson just hung out in the park and talked to us for a long time as if we were friends or, at a minimum, as if he had absolutely nothing better to do and no one he was more interested in talking to. I have no idea what we talked about, but I’ll also never forget it.
Johnny Bench will always be my favorite player, but Brooks Robinson is always going to be the nicest player I’ve ever met.
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That was exactly my experience with Brooks Robinson. Was happy to give everybody a little of his time, and with a smile.
I’ve been lucky enough to play poker with Mickey Brantley, his son Michael, and with Michael Fulmer. Mick is a really nice fellow. Michael was very quiet in the brief time I played with him, and Fulmer was an “A” ball pitcher with the Mets at the time. He was kind of an interesting guy, because he came to the cardroom by himself on a weekday to play 1-2 NL with some old guys, instead of hanging with his baseball buddies. Was a really nice kid though. I have a friend who worked in tv with Frank Viola and said he was a very down to earth and nice person.
https://twitter.com/bostonstrong_34/status/1707377188398333964
Fuck cancer and fuck Curt Schilling for making this public.
Oh lord are Wake and Schilling buddies or something? Ugh.
Fact that Curt released this info without Tim’s consent just for some exposure makes him a scumbag.
Hope Tim beats it
Just another reason to hate Curt Schilling.
“Tim Wakefield … the knuckleballer, is sick,” Schilling began. “And I talked to Doug Mirabelli yesterday, and it’s not a message that Tim has asked anyone to share and I’m not even sure if he wants it shared. But as a Christian and a man of faith, I have seen prayer work, and so I’m going to talk about it. …Tomorrow is never, ever a given. Tim’s wife, Stacy, who is one of the sweetest women you’ll ever meet, is very sick with pancreatic cancer. … We’re all thinking about them and praying for her. But recently, Tim was diagnosed with a very serious, very aggressive form of brain cancer.”
Just fucking die already you self-absorbed garbage pile.
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He might’ve heard it from another teammate of theirs, wouldn’t jump to a conclusion there based on this. I’ve heard things like this third hand that someone didn’t want to get out of course, some people can’t shut up.
edit–exactly what I said, third hand and he told it to the world cause he sucks
Jesus brain and pancreatic to him and his wife holy shit. I got nothing to help with that other than sympathy I guess even though that means nothing.
Varitek’s wife did not mince words.
damn even barstool called him an asshole
angel hernandez is trending
blew a call on bryce harper, told harper to see the replay he went around (he clearly did not go around on a check swing) harper got ejected
A’s need to lose by a combined 14 over the last three games to break the negative run differential record
Hey, guess what? Angel Hernandez being terrible.
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Hernandez is such a piece of shit. Didn’t he sue the MLB for racism when he got demoted from umping playoff games or something when he really got demoted because he sucks ass as an ump and person?
First Robo-Ump should be called the Angel Hernandez project, both because it will seek to replace him, and also because it will make a ton of mistakes.
Encarnacion-Strand and Marte starting to rake. They might be legitimately good, maybe even better than De La Cruz.
ETA: On cue…
Good start, need a combined 10 over the last 2
I know it wasn’t good for Cubs fans, but a Brewer made his MLB debut last night and it was awesome. Caleb Boushley (pronounced Bosley, somehow) is from a small town in Wisconsin and turns 30 this weekend. Grew up a huge Brewers fan, his favorite players were Ben Sheets and Geoff Jenkins. Went to a community college for two years before transferring to UW-Lacrosse (he said it wasn’t even for baseball reasons - the CC was just cheap and he didn’t know what he wanted to study).
Got the call to the bigs and even though the game was meaningless for the Brewers, they threw him into a tough situation. Top 8, two outs, Brewers up 3-2. Comes in and strikes the guy out with a ton of friends and family in the stands.
Then he goes out for the 9th, first pitch hangs one and gives up the tying homer. He then proceeds to finish the 9th and goes out for the 10th. Walks a guy at one point, so they put another batter on intentionally to load the bases with two outs and he gets a strikeout to end the innings.
Brewers walk it off in the 10th. Kid (30-year-old kid) makes his debut and goes 2.1 innings in crunch time for his favorite team, at home, strikes out 5, and gets the win. Pretty awesome.
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and all but ends the cubs playoff hopes
1.5 back and marlins have tiebreaker rip
also he’s not 30 until tomorrow. Nice early birthday gift tho.
Stories like that are nice, there’s someone in a town over from me who faced one batter as a lefty, got him out, with the cardinals but never got out of AAA again. Even that is something to hang your hat on if that’s all you get. You still have to be insanely good to get that far. Just not the millions part of it.
This time of year is who do we got who’s never gotten a shot.
dang, all that and everyone clinched with a day to go, al west and some seeding I think out there still left
sigh, reds at a billion to one and they get in if all they did was not blow leads to the pirates thanks to the bullpen.
oh well go Dbacks/Orioles.
Marlins make it with -53 run differential
Cubs +100 don’t standard