October 9, 2008
Which Cub Is the Sore-est Loser?
Sammy Sosa's boom box. Dugout electrical fans. Now we can add "Dodgers plumbing" to the list of things that frustrated Cubs players have taken out their aggressions on. Who broke the water pipe that caused the dugout to flood? No one's fessing up - and Cubs GM Jim Hendry doesn't give a rat's ass. He told the Trib:
"I have no idea, and I don't have any interest in finding out...To me, it's not even an issue. Believe me, if I had been in a uniform, it might have been me. I guess the nozzle was knocked off the piping on the wall, and it's probably in a convenient spot when you're leaving the dugout to smack it."
Hendry goes on to explain that if the players had come out of the dugout smiling like they didn't care, journalists would make that the big story the next day. Come on - no one expected Cubs players to come skipping out like nothing happens. But plumbing isn't like glass or ceramics. It doesn't just break. You've gotta hit those things hard.
It's understandable that the players would get upset, even embarrassed by their post-season play. But when professional sports players act like children, they deserve to be treated as such. When we were kids, if we broke something at someone else's house, we'd be expected to fix it, clean it, or replace it. But it's the same old tired "boys will be boys" defense, and sooner or later, it won't be just an inanimate object that gets hit.
Kyle Farnsworth was relegated to the Disabled List after kicking that dugout fan. Carlos Zambrano shoving and slapping Michael Barrett last season. What will journalists write about, Jim Hendry, when a player puts another player on the DL with a broken nose?
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Helllarious!
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It obviously wasn't Ramirez or Soriano, because any swing they took would have missed the pipe miserably.
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tc3 = +1
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And we can rule Fukudome out too, right?
My money's on Jim Edmonds.
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Lee took several really good hacks but when it was Ramirez's turn he couldn't get the job done of breaking it all the way open. Soriano just started swinging well underneath the pipe and around it, missing it completely. DeRosa finally landed a blow that opened the pipe up.
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Getting mocked on The Daily Show probably made crybabies of all of them.
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You failed to post this part of the article:
...Hendry said he had spoken to the Dodgers and told an official to notify him if there was any damage so the Cubs could pay for it.
"The clubhouse people told me it was about the fourth or fifth time it has happened this year," Hendry said....
So, unlike what you alluded to, the Cubs will be paying for it. Plus, one would think that if this really is the 4th or 5th time this thing has been busted just this season, the Dodgers would be moving it to a harder-to-break location.
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i'm more proud than anything else that the cubs are a regular pop culture reference point, regardless of what it's for. more than can be said for our rivals, which i'm sure ultimately drives them nuts.
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I doubt the Cards care too much Mike.
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more than can be said for our rivals, which i'm sure ultimately drives them nuts.
I can speak only for the Cardinals, but that is simply not the case in St Louis. See, Cards fans are proud of the winning--second in World Series titles to the Yankees, for instance--not the joke of losing for so long. Yeah, some Cards fans think the team should get more national coverage, more games on ESPN, TBS, etc., but I've never met any who were too worried about it. Sorry--not trying to be mean; really, I'm not--only factual.
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colbert got us too.
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Fkin pipes of water!!! You made us play like we were the junior high playing the varsity! PIPES, you are gonna pay the price!!!
My money's on Reed Johnson who didn't get much playing time,"Check this coach, (swing - bash - water everywhere) I can hit pretty good. Maybe you should have used me."