The Cubs played another excellent game last night, winning 5-2. The injury to Kyle Hendricks was scary, but it appears he is alright. I can only think what a disaster this might have been for other recent Cubs teams in terms of morale and for the fans in terms of catastrophic thinking, but, in this case, they just played on and came out ahead. The bullpen was fantastic, putting up five plus shutout innings with Travis Wood contributing a home run as well.
A couple of knocks. Javier Baez has got to stop admiring balls he thinks he has hit out of the park and just run. In this case, he did hit a double, but was called out on a stupid rule that needs to be changed. I mean, his body was out of contact with second base for a nano-second after he almost broke his nose sliding headfirst into the Giants infielder. The intent of the rule should be to compensate for a runner genuinely over-running the base.
Does anyone else think the coverage on FS1 and MLB Network is bizarre? Nobody cares what Bill Murray is doing in the stands. Nor do we really care how long it has been since the Cubs won a World Series or even played in one, not to mention the Indians, etc. We also don't care about how stupid the playoff structure is and how absurd it is to be playing meaningful games in November, mainly because there is nothing anyone can do about it right now and all we really care about, no matter who you are rooting for, is this game.
The topper this evening was the interview with the Giants manager and the guy with the bow-tie. These interviews are pretty mindless exercises in any case. Last night, they managed to miss the Wood home run while this incessant blather was going on. I wish there was not such a distinct network lag, so that it would be possible to mute the TV and just pick up the Cubs radio guys.
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