So,
what does a baseball payroll of $289 million get you these days? Judging by the Dodgers, a first-round exit
from the playoffs. Color clueless LA
manager Don Mattingly gone. If you can’t
beat a hitting-challenged team like the Mets with Zack Greinke on the mound,
you don’t belong in the postseason, as the Dodgers obviously don’t. Mattingly will pay the price for failing to
motivate his overpaid hitless wonders.
It
was hard to tell which was the more pathetic sad-fan camera shot, the one
showing talk-show Larry King or Dodger part-owner Magic Johnson. The two of them know so little about baseball
they must have needed help to their seats and cues when to cheer. In Chicago, we have a basketball guy who also
pretends to know baseball. His name is
Jerry Reinsdorf, and he’s beyond help.
Cubs
vs. Mets? If the Mets can come up with a
descendant of the black cat that ran by Ron Santo in the on-deck circle during
a game at Shea Stadium in September of 1969, they have a chance. Otherwise, Chicago’s National League club
goes to a World Series for the first time in 70 years.
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