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| The exact opposite of how I feel |
Boy, that ninth inning, huh? I continue to have no real problem with either Tyler Chatwood or Travis Bergen, but in candor I've got to say that was way too many bases-loaded walks for my enjoyment. Three of them is a lot! The Rays barely got the ball out of the infield, and scored four runs, spoiling not just a really good outing from Hyun-Jin Ryu, and a lovely day for Téo, but Randall Grichuk's two-run home run in the eighth, which felt like a huge, huge hit at the time. But nope! It sure wasn't! A rough afternoon, to be sure, and a really rough week altogether. One of the wags on twitter.com has suggested that this was the most dispiriting weekend of Blue Jays baseball he can recall, but one of the many gifts of age is that I have seen an awful lot of baseball, and an awful lot of awful baseball, and have watched much, much worse teams do way less interesting things on many a weekend. This is arguably a weird flex on my part, but I flex in this manner (weirdly) only to urge calm, much as Jesse Barfield has been doing, also on twitter.com (there are all manner of "accounts" on it). It's only May, Jesse reminds us. These are all pretty much the same guys who looked amazing two weeks ago, we might add. They were not as good as they looked then (except for Vladdy) and they are not as bad as they look now (Vladdy still looks great).
KS
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