Les Marlines 4, L’Astros 2
W: Turner (4-6)
L: McHugh (4-9)
Submitted by Reuben
It was a crappy Sunday all around. For one thing, I returned from a wonderful trip to France only to discover that my brand-new car had died in long-term parking. (I’ll only say, for now, that it is a popular hybrid model. I’m going to wait and see how the company’s Warranty Service division handles this before I decide whether to use the power of my high-profile OWA Column to either sink the company or send hordes of new customers their way).
After about 2 hours’ worth of waiting and attempts by JFK Parking Services to jump-start the car, we finally resigned ourselves to needing to get it towed to a dealership. This decision was followed by another 2 hours of waiting for a tow truck that never came. By this point it was about 3am EST, or 9am France time, meaning we’d been more or less awake for 25 hours.
So after cabbing it to Brooklyn, I’m back at long-term parking, waiting for another tow company that was suppose to be here a half-hour ago. In case you didn’t know, you should never trust a tow company.
But you know who really had a rough day? Anonymous Astros Players. Those poor souls had to deal with a minor leaguer coming to their ballpark in the morning and actually throwing pitches in front of an actual pitching coach! How awful! How tough it must have been for them! And to think, most of them don’t get paid enough to put up with that kind of shit – as little as $4-or-500,000 a year in some cases! Can you believe it!?!
I’m sure this horrible, feel-bad-making event was the real reason that they got broomed by the Marlins that afternoon. How could they be expected to see a baseball through all those tears?!?