Where’s The Effort?
Monday, September 1st, 2008The Motor City Kitties are making a run at last place in the division, and nobody seems to care. Is it honestly 7-1 in the 2nd inning when Justin Verlander, your “staff ace”, started the game? Oh, wait, make that 8 to 1.
2 errors, in 1 2/3 innings? And that doesn’t include Magglio Ordonez watching a line drive fall 2 feet in front of him without making anything remotely related to an effort, or Placido Polanco watching his ground ball roll down the 3rd base line from the batters box as he was thrown out by 90 feet, or Miguel Cabrera dropping a foul pop-out.
The Tigers were supposed to have the day off today. They’ll get a day off anyways! They’re only here to watch the Yankees trot around the bases!
And the crowd goes wild! Gary Sheffield leads off the bottom half of the 2nd inning with another team-trademarked SOLO HOME RUN. Hey look! They stranded the bases loaded with one out! Surprise!
I don’t know what else to say, other than you should at least TRY when there is 40,000+ in attendance on a Monday afternoon for a sub-.500 baseball team.
I’ll get you some interesting stats later this week…