Saturday, October 22, 2005

Bobby Jenks is a Big Dumb Animal

And I mean that in the best possible way. As the Baseball Crank notes, you had to feel a little bit bad for Bags there in the 8th. Somehow, that situation when have been VASTLY more entertaining had the great Pujols been at the dish. If you think he did Very Bad Things to Lidge's cement-mixing slider, imagine what could happens when/if he catches Jenks's 101 MPH Bubba-Ball...

(Speaking of Pujols, the best 'Good Teammate' story of the weak, as recounted by Buster Olney:
On the flight from Houston to St. Louis, after Pujols' stunning home run in Game 5, the pilot -- cued by some member of the team, in all likelihood -- announced that if you looked out the left side of the airplane you would see Pujols' home run zooming past.

I guess that's how you avoid the Dead Man Walking game. "If you look underneath the cab, you can see Mookie's grounder still rolling." Doesn't quite have the same ring...)

Final thought: Was it really neccesary for Fox to do a whole 'nother "cursed franchise" montage pregame? Maybe Shaughnessy has a Black Sox book coming out that he needs to peddle...Of course it does allow RSN to remind ourselves that we are still the champs, for another few days at least.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

But admit it--you gotta love the Oz's signal for bringing Jenks in from the pen. Makes you wonder, say, if Wayback Wasdin was out there, would the Oz walk to the mound pointing over the outfield fences; or if he was walking out to call in Foulkie this year, would he have signalled the pen by grabbing his neck with both hands?

Anonymous said...

Plus, I can't believe you neglected to mention the back-to-back two worst patriotic-tunes-at-an-athletic-event of all time. Josh Grobin (quick, my insulin) seemed to have most of the words for the National Anthem, but the tune was from the flip side of some chart flop. And Liz Phair--puh-leez!!! Ronen Tynin (pardon my spelling) must have been cringing somewhere. (If only the Yankees or the good Sox) had had some pitching, . . . .

MN

Pooh said...

It's true, the "Dame' El Gordo" signal was classic...