MARLINS REPORT
Well, the Marlins managed to take a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the 8th and still lose, to Atlanta, 4-3. It's beginning to look like the Marlin's season is on life-support, skating on thin ice, hanging by a thread, and gasping its' last breath.
What I mean to say is that they've somehow forgot how to win at the worst possible point in the season. They've lost 7 of their last 9 games, three of them by only 1 run, 5 of them after taking a lead in the game, and three of them in the other teams' last at-bat. At this point the Marlins are 3 games behind in the Wild Card, with 8 games left. It looks like the only way the Marlins get into the playoffs is if either Houston or Philly put all their hands up in the air at one time and say "Okay, we decided we don't want to win any more games" and then go sit out in the parking lot to drink beer for the next week . Probably both teams would have to do it for the Marlins to get to post-season, and I'm certainly not holding my breath for either team to help out like that.
The only thing close to being worse is seeing the Chicago White Sox take a 15 game lead and have it shrink down to 1 1/2. I'm from Chicago, and it's bad enough to have watched the Cubs lose year after year after year (and yet they still fill Wrigley Field every game, which I must say is a beautiful ball park) but even the Cubs never had a collapse of this magnitude. The closest would be the Cubs in '69 against the Mets; 7 games ahead in first with 10 games left in the season and they managed to blow it. That one hurt to watch.
Please White Sox, don't collapse all the way....
Please Marlins, don't collapse all the way....
Please Cubs, don't....oh, never mind, you're already so far out of it.
What I mean to say is that they've somehow forgot how to win at the worst possible point in the season. They've lost 7 of their last 9 games, three of them by only 1 run, 5 of them after taking a lead in the game, and three of them in the other teams' last at-bat. At this point the Marlins are 3 games behind in the Wild Card, with 8 games left. It looks like the only way the Marlins get into the playoffs is if either Houston or Philly put all their hands up in the air at one time and say "Okay, we decided we don't want to win any more games" and then go sit out in the parking lot to drink beer for the next week . Probably both teams would have to do it for the Marlins to get to post-season, and I'm certainly not holding my breath for either team to help out like that.
The only thing close to being worse is seeing the Chicago White Sox take a 15 game lead and have it shrink down to 1 1/2. I'm from Chicago, and it's bad enough to have watched the Cubs lose year after year after year (and yet they still fill Wrigley Field every game, which I must say is a beautiful ball park) but even the Cubs never had a collapse of this magnitude. The closest would be the Cubs in '69 against the Mets; 7 games ahead in first with 10 games left in the season and they managed to blow it. That one hurt to watch.
Please White Sox, don't collapse all the way....
Please Marlins, don't collapse all the way....
Please Cubs, don't....oh, never mind, you're already so far out of it.
posted by David at
10:27 PM
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