How Fucking Hard Can It Be?

No offense to Zach Duke, but if you come to the plate as the tying run in the 9th inning and swing at the first pitch, you deserve to lose.

God Damn It.

Why am I the only person who seems to think there's a correlation between swinging at the first pitch all the fucking time and losing a lot of fucking ball games?

I only rant about this shit because it seems so, you know, elemental. Take one pitch, maybe you take four, maybe you're on base for the next guy, who takes a few pitches to, you know, SEE WHAT THE PITCHER HAS, then he singles, then
the next guy maybe sees a first ball fastball, then he can drive it into the bleachers, because it's first and third and the pitcher's thrown God knows how many pitches so he's got to get something over. So he hangs it and your guy bangs it.

The Cubs, however, can't seem to get this fundamental baseball skill into their collective blue head, although I'd like to think it cost Corey Patterson his Major League job. So what the hell? Why does this shit keep happening? And when does a manager praising his team for aggressiveness at the plate become a causal liability?

And can we now give me a medal, please, for exactly what I've been saying for two years now? Greg Maddux pitched a fine game this afternoon giving up three runs on five hits. That's that great pitching the pundits are telling us is going to carry the Cubs all the way to the post season.Yeah. But then a bunch of guiys swing at the first pitch with a man on and one out, and the Cubs ground into four double plays. Jesus. It's one game, but it's not. It's the season in a Goddamned nutshell.

Hate that shit.