What the…

Last evening, I kind of skipped over my Redlegs, and went about other business. I was still a little peaved about the total meltdown that followed Homer Bailey’s (finally) awesome performance, or the total ass whomping I had to watch at my in-laws Sunday. So either way, I had missed the Reds vs. Phillies game completely. I flipped through the channels, to see if the game was still on, or at the very least, the postgame. Thats when it hit me.
What the fuck? Did I see that right? Did we really lose by 3 touchdowns?
How could this happen? I know the Phillies won the world series last seaon, but come on. 22-1? I know a good deal of the runs were given up at the end, by back-up shortstop Paul janish, but still, 22-1. This is Major league baseball. I can see some crazy summer night, with the wind blowing out, a high scoring game, where one team gets into the 20’s, but you gotta expect the other team posts an otherwise crazy score, not a shootout on one side, and a near shutout on the other. Thats little league stuff. We’ve all either played on that really good little league, high school, or softball team, or inversely played on that cast of retards that made you hate life after every game. Blowouts happen, we’ve all been a part of one somewhere along the line, but the majors? I know, it only counts as one loss, and as a sympathetic society, I can expect that, even though I think the Reds should forfeit the rest of the series. The real injustice, is Philly only gets one win for that. Give those guys credit, they kicked the shit out of the Reds. They should either get like 10 wins for that, an automatic post-season bid, or a really awesome trophy.
The other thing that really struck me, was, how is there not a mercy rule in the Majors? I understand, it’s a business, and the fans paid to see at least 9 innings, but there can be rainouts. and stuff, so stopping the game before 9 full innings does happen. I’m not saying you have to have a universal mercy rule in MLB, but maybe just for the Ohio teams. They both suck really, really bad. The saddest thing is, Cleveland sucks way more than the Reds do, imagine if they had to play Philly.
To think, when I saw the matchup between Cueto, and Hammels, and thought it was gonna be a pitchers duel, and meant to watch it, I was actually saved from what could have been a toalt meltdown. Now, I’m glad I instead worked tirelessly at making puffy-paint Michael Jackson tribute signs to decorate my vehicle with. Instead of looking like just another ass-hole Reds fan, I was that guy witht eh awesome wheels blaring thriller all day.

Go Reds!