Cubby-Blue

Pablo Sandoval's 3 dingers. Give a big hand for Panda.

 

3 home runs in the first game of the 2012 World Series for Pablo Sandoval.
You already heard he's in the room with Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson and Prince Albert.
Impossible.
History.
He's gotta be the happiest man in the country.
Meanwhile, in the other dugout...
Justin Verlander melts down.
We get the added bonus of watching Jose Valverde come in for one out of the 7th and give up 4 hits and 2 runs.
Giants 8 Tigers 3.
Nice. 

Ozzie Guillen's legacy.

Pretend it's 2022.
Who was Mel Gibson?
Who was Lindsay Lohan?
Who was Ozzie Guillen?

Sure you'll know they were an actor or a manager or whatever, but you'll also know them by their behavior.
Yesterday the Miami Marlins gave Ozzie a pink slip.
I'm certain he'll be somebody's manager again, he's actually pretty talented.
Just hard to get around the other part.

 

Giants Win! Hunter Pence stars in "Matrix".

You know I had to work last night.
Missed seeing anything.
Sutter emailed that I should look for the Hunter Pence broken bat thing.
Even on my At Bat app, they won't show replays til the game's over.
But I finally saw it, and I know I haven't mentioned it yet but that super slo mo camera they've been training on the batter is just astonishing to watch (You can read about it at WIRED).
Like the "Matrix" movie.
Even though it was ex-Astro Hunter Pence who got this cool hit (and who I will always think throws like a shot putter), it's kind of okay now that he's a Giant.
Just part of an enormous NINE TO NOTHIN' whup job on the Cardinals.
SUPER COOL and I'm looking forward to the Giants continuing their winning ways thru the Series with Detroit.
Speaking of which, the Bears took a Monday night game from the Lions last night.
I heard Cutler took a vicious hit and came back in to lead the win, and now hopefully nobody'll ever talk about that Packer Championship game and him supposedly wussing out ever again. 
Because he didn't.

Okay gots to go back to work! 

Giants 6 Cardinals 1, Ryan Vogelsong beats songbirds.

 

Thank you, Ryan Vogelsong.
This San Francisco Giants vs St. Louis Cardinal series has been pretty dang fun to watch.
A disastrous 2nd inning for Chris Carpenter, giving up 4 runs (after one in the 1st).
It included a super nifty RBI single for Vogelsong when he did the "I'm gonna bunt" stance and then changed into the "Oh no I'm not" stance and smacked one to SS Pete Kozma's right that he got to but bobbled as a run scored and worse, an out didn't happen.
E on Kozma.
Marco Scutero hit a double which knocked in 2 including Vogelsong.
And then Pablo Sandoval hit a single which scored Scutero.
Giants 5 Cards nothin' and it was only thru the 2nd.
Chris Carpenter pitched two more scoreless and then took a seat.

But Vogelsong, that guy went 7 innings and gave up only 4 hits and one teeny run.

And Game 7 happens right when it's Game 1 of Bears vs Lions.
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'll be in my office all night long.
Ow.
Sometimes it just works out like that.

Go Bears.
Go Giants. 

 

 

 

Cardinals lose. Lance Lynne is seeing things.

 

First, before you do anything, go to ESPN and watch their little video recap of the game.
At 2:33 you'll hear an audio glitch that sounds remarkably like a burp.
Sorry, that stuff makes me laugh.

Anyway, I almost felt sorry for Cardinal starter Lance Lynne.
He'd given up only a walk through three, but then came the 4th.
Ex-Astro Hunter Pence is up for the Giants with Pablo Sandoval on first, Marco Scutaro at 2nd and one out.
Pence hits a little accident to Lynne.
Sandoval looks like a pulling guard running to second.
Cardinal 2B Daniel Descalso thought the ball might get past Lynne, so he takes a step forward while SS Pete Kozma tentatively moves towards second, stops, then runs over to the bag as Lynne's throw bounces off 2nd up over Kozma and then Kozma bounces off Sandoval, who then runs to third while Scutaro scores.
After, they had a great shot of Lynne who appeared to be talking to himself.
He threw it at the bag.
Had Kozma been there, Sandoval's out by a mile.
Maybe Kozma had baseball's version of hearing footsteps, because he sure doesn't want a real collision with Sandoval.

And in the end it's an error on Lynne.
He also grounded into a bases loaded double play.
The last guy to do that in a playoff game?
Rick Sutcliffe in 1989.
Ouch for us.
Okay so like I said, I almost felt sorry for him but...nah.

Here's what's happened in each of these NLCS games so far: the team that makes the error loses.
Game 1 was Sandoval, Giants lose.
Game 2 was Carpenter and Holliday, Cards lose.
Game 3 was Cain, Giants lose.
Game 4 was Sandoval again, Giants lose.
Game 5 was Lynne, Cards win.
That's probably really a buncha nothin', but there you go.

It should be noted that Barry Zito has suddenly become the most loved guy in the world.
Read Jayson Stark today and click on the #rallyzito hashtag.

Okay, the Cubs.
They lost Bob Brenly.
Man that one hurts.
He's just a guy unafraid to say what he thinks about what he sees.
His constant critiques of Alfonso Soriano's left field struggles were as fantastic as when he also said how much Soriano had improved last year.
Now you have to worry about who's next, and no matter who it is...well they won't be Brenly.

NLCS moves to San Francisco for the last two games.
Go Giants.