We obsess over it more than we should, and certainly more than is healthy, but watching Sergio Mitre yesterday reminded us that baseball’s just a game. It reminded us, because you just knew that this was good as it’s ever going to get for Sergio, and it had to be fun as hell.
Sergio picked the perfect day to be almost perfect. A nice warm day where it was easy to get loose and stay loose. A packed house in the first day game at Wrigley in way too long and with a Cy Young winner taking the mound for the other side.
Roy Halladay was as good as advertised. But for one glorious afternoon, Sergio Mitre was better. Somebody needs to burn a DVD of the game for Serge, because even if he has a long and successful career, yesterday’s going to be hard to knock off the top of his hit list.
Seven innings. Two hits. An RBI double and a run scored in a 2-0 shutout. No wonder Lindsey Lohan hit the coke when he dumped her.
The Cubs offense was a no show again, which is why Sergio had to take matters into his own hands. But he did, and the short two game losing streak is over. The Cubs are now 19-9 in their last 28 games and that just happens to be the best record in baseball. (Doesn’t say much for the 29 other teams, does it?)
It’s just proof of how fragile our confidence in them is that two losses in a row had Cubs’ fans hacking up their wrists with dull razor blades and shotgunning Old Style to soothe the pain. This is not the time to point out that with Kerry Wood and Mark Prior showing actual progress in their rehabs that a little offense might be all this will need for a date with October. This is not the time, because we do that every day.
The Cubs announced that Glendon Rusch will get the start Sunday night in glorious HD and in front of Joe Morgan against the Red Sox. That’s great. Glendon’s been clutch for two years, he deserves a little prime time attention.
The Cubs also announced that John Koronka will start Monday against the Marlins.
Oh, God, why? The Cubs couldn’t just skip that loser’s turn and come back with Sergio? Look, even after a great start yesterday, I’m not exactly driving the Sergio Meat Tray bandwagon (which of course, would look like this…)
but what exactly has Koronka done to deserve another start? He beat the Dodgers by going five less than sterling innings and gave up “only” four runs in six innings last time out, but was in trouble, constantly. He’s just not very…what’s the word I’m looking for…”good!”
Honestly, you’d be better off putting Wood on a minor league rehab-esque pitch count and having him start than Koronka.
Well, there’s always the chance that he could fall off the bench before Monday and hurt himself. Or maybe he’ll sit in Mike Remlinger’s chair?
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Dee Brown broke his foot yesterday at the Chicago pre-draft camp. It’s the same foot that he had the stress fracture in during the end of the 2004 season. His NBA chances for this year are shot, because he needed to showcase his skills in the camp, and on top of that NBA teams stopped being excited about drafting guys with broken foot after Sam Bowie.
Anyway, check out this rambling article by Marlen Garcia. He talks about how Dee broke his foot and will likely pull his name out of the draft and then says, “It was unclear whether Brown would continue playing in the camp.”
Gee, I think he’d try to play with a cast on his foot. After all, he’s not having surgery until next week!
I know what happened. Marlen wrote an article about the injury before they found out it was broken, an editor threw the updated information into the piece and left that awkward sentence in by mistake. We hope.
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Mariotti didn’t put down the doughnut to write anything today (which is a shock, he’s usually too paranoid about his job to not write something every day), but Teddy Greenstein writes about him. Jerry Reinsdorf went on Comcast last night to call Jay a liar. That’s always fun. Jay says that Jerry, “will be hearing from my lawyer.” I’m sure Jerry is shaking. What’s Jay going to sue Jerry for? For pointing out that Jay was wrong when he said that Skiles and Jerry had a face-to-face meeting?
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I was filthy yesterday in my simulated game yesterday. I made the Gremlin and Enrique Wilson look sick.
It’s a shame that Moronotti ends up getting the attention his starstruck ass so desperately craves.
Bill Adee–who now works at the Tribune–should be hanged for bringing Jay to town twelve years ago or so in the first place. He’s a civic embarassment and every time I see his smirking ass on ESPN with “Chicago Sun Times” in the background I go into convulsions.
Today I bought a suit of clothes today and it costed a lot of money today.
Remember when I dominated the Sox on sunday night last year? Joe Morgan and his buddy K- Zone were no match for my skills.
Ya got me, ODB.
While I do have some masculine qualities, please tell Dolan I have a vagina and not a penis
I’m only 17!!!
Summer breeze…makes me feel fine.
Sure cos’, and I’m only 24.
Hey Garcia, quit ripping me off !
Hey, Marlen! Same here!
Marlen’s a chick? Who knew?
I like the Jay Leno quote at the bottom of the Rozer column. I like it because maybe Carlos will read it and the world will finally be free of Jay Leno.
Andy, is that title of the dose a mocking of my free giving of deer meat. You better watch who gets that meat. It can break your neck if you eat it. Just ask Clint. Specially eating it while driving ATV’s.
The Meat Tray was very filling yesterday. The Serge had some kick ass shit. Us Cub fans didn’t know what hit us. But it was vintage Cubs beating another former Cy Young winner. Are we not surprised we can make a no name shitty lefty look like a Cy Young winner and go out and beat a legit Cy Young winner?
One thing that disturbed me in the game was how Roy boy served up an 0-2 pitch right down the gut to Korey. Of course, Korey does what Korey does best and that’s to swing at everything he can. So he got lucky and plated a run. Patterson treated us with two strikeouts again. Those are a thing of beauty.
The sight on WGN Sports last night made me sick too. Kerry Wood was being interviewed with his arm wrapped up like he had just pitched a complete game shutout. Hate to blow your cover Mrs. Wood, but you just pitched another sissy simulated game against none other then the Gremlin and a shorter and fatter version of Tom Goodwin. I wouldn’t be bragging in interview sessions. Wood doesn’t even realize he’s an embarrassment either. But I guess he’ll be in Iowa here in the next week or so throwing some BP. It should be interesting if he’s back before July. I’ll take the over on this one.
Baker Basher
Hey, Basher, how do you know that the Meat Tray is filling! I’m telling your “fiancee”
Hey, Basher, how do you know that the Meat Tray is filling! I’m telling your “fiancee”
I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Sergio’s performance yesterday as a once-in-a-career type of game. Not everyone is going to come up from the minors and have the early success and dominance that Wood and Prior did. I don’t think Sergio has #1-2 starter stuff, but he certainly has a chance to be a solid middle-of-the-rotation guy. Young pitchers are going to have their struggles, but at this point he’s the best the system has to offer (until they add Rich Hill to the 40-man and bring him up).
I cannot fulfill the fantasies of Mrs. Baker Basher. I wish I was part of the meat tray.
I’m dead.
So is Morrie…I think.
Hey! The Cubs left me in San Diego! I thought they liked me. Oh well, guess I’ll go get drunk at Legoland.
Jerks.
Did you see my quote in the New York Times this morning? I know most of you think I’m a complete asshat, but maybe this will win you back over. I’m doing a remake of Samurai Dry Cleaner…see you around.
“Watching the Red Sox win was a very weird experience,” said Jim Belushi, an actor and a lifelong Cubs fan. “It was like having a neighbor win the lottery. At first you’re really happy for them because it couldn’t happen to a better guy. And then you realize that he’ll move into a bigger house in another neighborhood and you never had anything in common with him in the first place and he was really a big jerk. I mean, the Red Sox’ celebrity mascot is Ben Affleck. Doesn’t that tell you enough?”
What, no mention of Jay Leno’s Carlos comment in Rozner’s column?
I weel kill this Jay Leno
people tell me I look a lot like Spuds McKenzie
I believe Andy hit it with sweet spot of the bat when he referred to Enrique as me.
But I am smooth, no?
Joe Camel has a huge pair of me, as his face looks like male genitalia.
Let’s just say that Enrique is muy popular con las mujeres.
Am I timely, or what? The Z computer story is only two weeks old.
I’ve got some John Elway slow white Bronco jokes that I’m waiting to trot out. They kill. Get it?
“I don’t sign for white people”, but I will have some of those steroids you got there.
Yeah, I’m a real reliable source. I have never been accused of making racist remarks when managing the Flyers or playing in the majors. I don’t have a reputation for exaggerating things or for making up a story to top someone else’s story.
I’m a model human being.
We’re both shitbags. But, I am a great player, Kittle stunk.