White Sox 4, Blue Jays 3: Not Even Mad

long may you run

This is kind of like when it got so bad with E5 at third base that you couldn't even get upset when he'd sail one over Lind's head and into the crowd, or whatever, because absolutely everyone knew what E5 was, and yet he was still being misused. At that point the player is blameless in my view, and all ire is redirected towards the manager who insists on using a player in a particular way that all but ensures failure. This is what the Francisco Cordero situation has turned into. When he came into pitch the bottom of the ninth in a 3-3 tie, it was like, oh OK, a 4-3 walkoff loss, here it comes. It was totally worry free!


Also mitigating any potential minding on my part is the fact that Orlando Hudson -- yes, the O-Dog -- knocked in the winning run. I like that guy and always have. If you cannot find it within yourself to like a scrappy good-natured chatterbox of a second baseman, then you and I are very, very different people.  Hudson came up with the Blue Jays as a decent defensive second basemen and became quite a good one, actually, under the tutelage of the much-loved Brian "Butters" Butterfield, who, like Moneyball-era Ron Washington, has seen some shit. It's surprising the extent to which he's bounced around in his career, and here he is towards the end of it, playing third base, and a pretty awful third base last night, the kind of awful third base that doesn't turn up in the box score but that is juuuust awful both to the advanced metrics and to the naked eye, the kind that clearly costs runs. So good for him with the big hit and everything! 


I am unable to find any video of his lovably awkward in-stadium promo thing they used to run in Toronto for the O-Dog Combo, which featured Hudson on the big screen saying (way too quickly), "Checkoutconcession . . . fortheODogcombo . . . consistingof . . . ."  Alas, the rest is lost to history. Here however is a video of him talking nonstop, though, and again, if you do not like this, then I just don't know man, I just don't know.


KS