This is going to be ugly
Let’s take a look at the pitching match-up:
On the Phillies side you have Roy Halladay. The man whose been the best pitcher in baseball for the past 10 years. A man who is an absolute machine. He pumps out more complete games in a year than the number of sick days Wal-Mart employees are given out. This was all in the best division in baseball, and that didn’t seem to matter to him. Now he’s in the NL and doing even better. May God have mercy on us all.
On the Cardinals side you Kyle Lohse. Mr. Mediocrity. The man whose best year was an ERA+ of 113. After that he was given a contract which overpaid him and could best be described in adjectives that would describe my future: Hopeless. Bleak. Gay As All Hell.
And the lineups. Lohse will be facing the best lineup in the NL. Halladay will be facing one that was just shut down by Kyle Kendrick. The future I see for this game: a boot stomping into a human face forever.
But, I’ll still watch. That’s the beauty of baseball. One of the best pitchers in baseball vs. a fifth starter sounds ugly but the Cardinals’ odds of winning are the same as any day: 50/50. Every game is a coinflip. Great players have bad days. Terrible players go out there and play the game of their careers. Or things go as you expect, but then the Phillies’ bullpen has a meltdown. Who know, that’s baseball.
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Cards have faced Halladay before and it wasn’t pretty. He pitched a CG, giving up only one run. That was a homerun by John Mabry.
I have to finish a paper today and I’m still watching. I even have an excuse to turn off the game. I think on some level I just hate myself.