This was SUPPOSED to be Serious Songwriter week here on the ol’ Daily Reason, but [friend who wishes to remain nameless] came through with a bravura installment in his Futility Watch email series. Since he dislikes the internet, he’s graciously allowed me to repost here.
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i’m speechless.
better to just let the participants in yesterday’s nats v. astros debacle discuss.
in the interest of being fair and balanced…i’ll alternate spokespeople:
astros manager cecil cooper: “One of the weirdest situations I’ve ever seen. We go from pitching really great [for] one, two days, and then just the opposite. I don’t know what the heck to do. I don’t know how to explain it. How many did we walk today? 10?”
nats manager manny acta: ” “A couple plays that we didn’t make cost us six runs total. When your pitching is struggling, you have to catch the ball.”
astros reliever chris sampson: “I had a bad day. I’m human. Everybody out there’s human.”
nats GM mike rizzo: “We need to play better defense, and we need the bullpen to perform.”
astros reliever latroy hawkins: “Just very, very ugly.”
ok..ok…you get the idea.
i can’t even begin to describe how pathetic this game was.
i mean… normally i’d cite old friend julian tavares (1/3 inning, 3 earned runs) or chris “i’m human” sampson (7 batters, four walks, 3 runs forced in)
sadly, that only begins to give you the flavor of this one.
houston took the lead, then washington took the lead (i mean houston gave away the lead), then houston took the lead again (i mean washington gave away the lead), then washington took the lead again (i mean houston gave away the lead again), then houston took the lead again (i mean washington gave away the lead again), then washington took the lead again (i mean houston gave away the lead again), then houston tied it (i mean washington gave away the lead again).
then…the rain came and the poor saps who had sat at nationals park watching this crap for over 3 hours were told (after another 75 minutes sitting in the rain) that the game was being suspended.
the nats had a man on first with one out in the bottom of the 11th.
any nats fans who want to see if the hometown nine can push across the winning run will have to wait until july 9th when the game is resumed.
oh…one caveat…the nats fans will have to travel to houston because that’s where they are finishing the game.
i kinda doubt anyone will make the trip.
nats 10 astros 10
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It was getting a little too somber around here.
xx
djd
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