Sorry I couldn't explain it better, but, well, I don't think anybody can.
8. FS Artis Chambers — Aw, just when things get good for Michigan — three straight wins! — they have to go and find out that one of their freshman was ineligible for Big Ten play. The reserve safety played in the Penn State game and made all of one assisted tackle, but that might be enough to cause a forfeit of UM's 14-9 win over Penn State. (Chambers also played in the first three games, but they were not Big Ten games and therefore didn't fall under the same set of rules.)
Nightmare season, indeed.
9. SP Tom Glavine — In all fairness? that fielder's choice he induced Dan Uggla into was masterful.
Beyond that, the 300-game winner let the other eight Florida Marlins batters he faced reach base Sunday. And contrary to popular opinion, it is difficult to come back from a 7-0 deficit in baseball, even though some teams in the NFL accomplished that very feat on the same day. But the New York Mets are not a football team, and if they were, and they had a 7-game lead with 17 games to play, then they somehow cheated, because there are only 16 weeks in a season. Did I just blow your mind?
Manager: Willie Randolph — Because we're just as bad as the New York media, we'll ask the question too: Should the Mets' manager be fired for blowing a seven-game divisional lead with 17 games left in the season? It seems the consensus is that firing isn't the way to go, but he's certainly at fault.
Personally I could go either way. On one hand, his ERA was 0.00 down the stretch, but his batting average was also .000 with runners in scoring position.
Article comments
1 - Tom
Coors inflated numbers? You obviously know little about either Coors field or Holliday's play this year. The Rockies have won without a Blake Street Bombers lineup. They've won with guys who get key hits, everywhere and not just at Coors, and with the best defense in baseball history.
Holliday has earned the MVP, he's got the batting title and the RBI title and both he and Tulowitzky (NL Rookie of the Year beyond doubt) put their team into the playoffs tonight.
2 - Benjamin Cossel
And San Diego had Trevor "Lights Out" Hoffman going into the 13th with a a two run lead, what the hell happened there? Season full of chokes, I swear.
3 - Matthew T. Sussman
When an 85 mph fastball is poorly located, well, it will locate itself between outfielders.
4 - REMF
"Oh, and Holliday injured himself on the slide."
A head-first dive is a "slide"?
With all due respect to Holliday's great season, I thought he sucked last night. 1) He struck out three times, twice with a runner in scoring position; 2) he let the game-tying ball go over his head in the eighth inning on a ball a seeing eye dog could've caught; and 3) he should've been called out on that last play, he didn't even come close to touching home.
And why go in head first? Woulda been safe by a mile with a traditional slide.
BUT...having said all that, I'm still glad the Rockies are in the playoffs!
5 - REMF
What's interesting about the accomplishments of Rollins and Granderson: the 20-20-20-20 had been performed only two times in the entire 120-plus year history of MLB, and then TWO guys do it in the SAME YEAR!!?!
Crazy...
6 - alessandro
Jamie Carroll is still property of the Montreal Expos.
I can just see goalies using the McAmmondesque logic: "I don't have problems stretching and stopping the puck. I have problems with people who know how to take dead aim and shoot perfectly through the five-hole."
Philadelphia Flyers brass after Downie ploughed into McAmmond: "He's perfect!"
7 - The Haze
1. The Padres take a Holliday......and we're not talking Disney Land!
2.Yeah,and the back of the shirt says,"courtesy of the N.Y. Mets"!
3.Agent Zero is the Anna Kournikova of the NBA.
4.Awkward moment???How about finding out that your starting fullback is gay and he can't stop staring at your ass?
5.think what would have happened if he would have asked the wizard for courage instead?
6."Lean in with your face son, you'll find what your looking for."
7."Break out the lanterns Boys,it's gonna be a long night"
8.Artis Chambers? Wasn't he the lead singer of the Dead Schembechlers?
9.Well the ship went down to the bottom of the sea and the only ones left were the fat cook and me so I looked to the sky with a tear in my eye........
10.(see above)