Mixing Metaphors

That’s it, I’m sick of watching this listless team play zombie baseball and I’m not watching until they wrap this thing up and head to the post season.  After another embarrassing loss to the Padres last night I am officially done with it.  I wanted to hear Vinny’s call live, I wanted to watch the champagne celebration, I wanted to see all of it.  Now I just want this season to be over with.  The worst thing (or best, you could argue) is that neither the Cardinals nor the Phillies have been on fire lately and the Dodgers still have a decent chance at keeping home field advantage through the post season and the way things are going now they’re going to need every advantage they can get.

So tonight I’m going to play softball and then I’m going to come home and watch The Office and figure out what to do about the end of this fantasy baseball season but the one thing I’m not going to do is even think about the Rockies (who never lose) coming into town tomorrow.  I haven’t quit on them and I get that every team goes through some periods where they don’t look good but are we even sure there hasn’t been some weird body swapping going on with these guys?  Did the doctors from (the Oscar-snubbed) Face/Off get a hold of Andre Ethier and Manny Ramirez and do some sort of switcheroo?  It’s one thing to get your guts ripped out like the Jon Broxton debacle in Pittsburgh but they’ve just rolled over and died these last few games.  Please guys, wrap this thing up so I can go back to watching you.

Turing Back to Clock all the Way to 2006

Like riding a bike, baby.  Raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming:
Top 1st: Cincinnati
- W. Taveras tripled to deep center (almost a HR from a guy who has hit 1 all season)
- J. Hairston Jr. doubled to left, W. Taveras scored  (murderer’s row)
- J. Votto singled to deep right, J. Hairston Jr. to third  (this one is fine, Votto is a star and we at the Bias love Joey Votto)
- J. Hairston Jr. scored, J. Votto to third on R. Martin’s throwing error  (shakes head sadly)
- B. Phillips singled to deep right center, J. Votto scored  (yep)
- B. Phillips out at second  (yahoo is confused)
- L. Nix flied out to center  (Schmidt has retired 2 in a row, story at 11:00)
- E. Encarnacion walked  (Don’t want to face that power)
- C. Dickerson fouled out to third  (and his teammates all made fun of him)

3 runs, 4 hits, 1 errors
Cincinnati 3, LA Dodgers 0

Welcome back, Jason.  Welcome back.

* Update: Dodgers score 4 in the bottom of the first.  And there was much rejoicing.

**Update: Dodgers score 2 more in the second.  Manny bomb.