I’m too upset to give a detailed analysis of the game. The obvious is that Kyle Farnsworth is going to sleep alone tonight. Not even the Chicago Chinatown massage parlors will except his 2yr/$9mil contract money. Of all the bad things he could of done, walked 4 guys, give up a solo-homer, get kicked out of the game… he does the worst and GIVES UP A 3-RUN HOMER! At least tackle Jim Thome after he crosses home plate or something. That would of made it a little bit more bearable.
The other side to the lost is the 11 LOBs by the team who hit a League leading 56 homeruns in Spring Training. Maybe someone should tell Mike Jacobs popping a ball up doesn’t mean a homerun in Chicago and if Billy Butler is going to go 0-4 with 5 LOBs, his wife is not going to make his favorite Corn Dog Casserole anymore.
Ok, that felt nice. Now I have to give props to the two guys I’ve been ragging on. Alex Gordon showed he’s not as “pull-happy” as previous years with a deep homerun to center and Mark Teahen looked like a well balanced hitter at the plate, but he still shouldn’t be in the 3rd slot and can’t power arms. We’ll discuss more in the podcast.