I like. 670 in the morning. Sue me. Mully’s been in the chair for all my important years in Chicago sports adulthood and I actually have a lot of respect for David Haugh the local sports journalist.
That said.
Mully sounds like a lot of you assholes today and I want to squash this right now before we even see May.
You guys need to get your fucking heads reattached.
There’s NO SUCH THING as a weak sweep in MLB. You can’t even joke about it. It’s like dividing by 0 in that it’s a complete user error and you have to be a moron to even try.
I understand your expectations are high because the numbers of past performance say we should win by 50. It makes sense you think good easily beats bad every single time. And I don’t blame anyone who thinks the Cubs lineup should do better than 9 runs in 3 games against the world’s worst team.
But ultimately end of the day it’s a 3-0 series against a bunch of major league pitchers that get paid to throw good pitches.
Every single guy on that field is doing their absolute best to get paid and have an every day job. There’s only one level of player that mails it in at The Show and it’s on the Miguel Cabrera retirement tour specturm.
Almost every single player outside of that category is going balls out every single night to do their best.
The Rockies are trash relatively speaking and historically the worst team of all time. But they’re still a major league baseball team under the lights at Wrigley Field with pitchers throwing 95. You’re not starting at the 10 yard line and trading possessions. You actually have to go out and put a beating on the baseball to score a bunch of runs and we cant emphasize enough here at CarlsBlogs.com just how hard that is.
Here’s the good stuff.
The pitching staff did what’s necessary to win games. I know we live in a world of no accountability and bad luck and Ben Browns. But there’s an alternate reality where the pitching staff is a bunch of dogs that doesn’t give one flying fuck about run support because their job is to keep the other team off the board. They don’t care about who gets what amount of credit. They just go out and compete their balls off in the moment and make good pitches because they love dominating other professional baseball players.
While crazy, I choose to live in that reality as my standard for pitching staffs. And that’s how I feel when we win 1 run games against a dog shit baseball team. Good thing we have the pitching staff to match. And that’s ultimately the kinda mentality that carries you to a dominant division championship.
Otherwise just pump the lineup full of steroids so everyone can quit their bitching.
Either way, most important thing is people limit their complaining when your baseball team sweeps a series. That’s #1 and please don’t forget it moving forward.