in the asphalt jungle of Manhattan. I was originally slated to pitch game one of the World Series had the Mets won last night but alas, they didn’t because their big money batters couldn’t figure out how to protect the plate in game seven of the league championship series with men on in the bottom of the ninth. What the fuck?

Conrad Connecticut wrote:

Bah. Willie did the right thing not bringing in Wagner. And overall, he did a great job with a team that had no starting pitching. It is not his fault they scored one run off Jeff Supan. Plus, Willie’s Mr. Met sized balls are as big as the herp on Albert’s lips.

If fans want to be critical of someone it should be Beltran. There is no excuse for going down looking with the bases loaded. But that is the modern baseball player. Locked in looking for a pitch he can drive out of the park when he should be protecting the plate with two strikes. At that point, your goal is simply not to make an out. Not just Beltran of course - Shawn Green, Stache [Valentin] and Endy were all taking Reggie like cuts in situations where they should have been looking to put the ball in play. Bah. Apparently, you can’t teach major leaguers fundamentals anymore. Like when a guy gets the take sign and stands there looking pissed off with the bat on his shoulder so everyone in the stadium knows he is taking. Or the fact that no one can bunt including pitchers in the NL.

Pathetic. I know that I couldn’t do anything (hit, throw, run) even 20% as well as MLB players but I know for a fact that right now I could bunt major league pitching better than 90% of the players in the
game.

Also, someone needs to tell Heilman that a change up stops being a change up if you never throw a fast ball. When every pitch is 79 mph it becomes batting practice.

My dad called me today and said “I would put a provision in all contracts banning players from the home run derby. Wright hasn’t been right since that stupid contest.” I say we get hats and cigars and start our own version of the sports reporters. We will preach solid fundamentals and yell at kids to get off our lawns.

Mary Milan and I will spend a few days in Manhattan picking out hats and cigars with Conrad Connecticut and see our friends from back east, then we’ll pick our toes in Poughkeepsie, and then it’s off to Pennsylvania where we will eat cheese steaks, run the Rocky mile and marry Joey Jerusalem and Jessie Napoli.

Will be back on Halloween with a bunch of treats, including a report on the wedding, Mary Milan’s first visit to my alma mater (and my first in maybe 10 years), and the long awaited brewing photo essay.

In the meantime, if anyone gets to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida or Universal City, please report. I have a soft spot in my heart for those scare parks and we didn’t get a chance to go to one this year.

God, it’s decadent to take a week off in the Fall.

Haha, bitches.

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