Trevor Anthony
A Guy's Guy 2011 MLB Season Recap
What up Freaks!? Well, the 2011 Major League Baseball season is over and it has left me sick to my stomach! Congrats to the Cardinals, whatever, I F'ING HATE THE CARDINALS! I mean seriously, how did this happen!? Even more proof that the Baseball Gods hate the Cubs and Cubs fans! In my lifetime alone I've had to endure the Cards winning 2 World Series Rings, the White Sox winning one, the Bo Sox winning 2, the Bartman Postseason, 1984 let down, 1989 let down, Cubbies getting swept two years in a row by the D-Backs and Dodgers and the horrible collapse of the '04 Cubs that many forget about... yep we were all chanting No-Mar curse while the Cubs were breaking our hearts... AGAIN!!! Sorry, this is not a cry in my beer, poor Cubs fan blog, this is the 2011 MLB recap.
Quickly, I don't care if you like baseball or not, it is the most magical sport! Even during the most exciting football games ever they do not even compare to the drama you get in a elimination baseball game. I mean seriously, every. single. pitch is intoxicating. In Game 6 of this World Series, if you were watching, you weren't leaving your seat, couch, lazy boy, whatever from the 6th inning on. That's a good forty five minutes to an hour of heart pumping excitement! As much as I love football, and ya'll know me, I LOVE ME SOME FOOTBALL, you just don't get that same drama... you don't!
Now, let's look at my MLB predictions... Wow, they were awful!
American League
East: Boston
Central: Chicago
West: Texas
Wild Card: Minnesota
National League
East: Philly
Central: Cincy
West: Los Angeles
Wild Card: Milwaukee (What!? What!?)
World Series: Boston over Philly in 6 ... I know, I know, totally lame
I mean really? Only one of my AL picks made it to the Postseason and only two of my NL picks, ha! Now, I will pat myself on the back for picking the Brew Crew! But, I didn't even have the World Series Champ in the postseason, but then again, they had no business being there. Thank you Atlanta for Choking like a fat kid eating ribs! And Red Sox, what the hell was that, I mean damn, we witnessed two of the greatest collapses ever! But I'll tell you what, that last night of the season was incredible. I was laser focused on all the games that night. To watch the Braves slip away and the Cardinals win was something but the real nastiness was Papelbon and the Sox being one strike away (saw a lot of that this season) from the post season and watching it slip away due to three straights doubles from one of the worst teams in baseball. Amazingly enough, the Sox were still alive because the Rays were getting crushed by the Yanks, but wait, here come the Rays! And literally within 5 minutes of the Sox losing, Longoria blasts one over the left field line for the win and a trip to the postseason... wow, what a night!
Baseball Thoughts:
- CY Youngs: AL - Verlander / NL - Kershaw
- MVPs: AL - Cabrera / NL - Kemp
- How the hell do the Dodgers have the Cy young winner & MVP on their team and still suck?
- I'll tell you how, chemistry plays a huge role in baseball, hell look at the idiot Cards and the 2010 Giants! 2 stars on the whole team but a ton of role players!
- What the hell happened to the Reds?
- Josh Hamilton's homer in Game 6 should have been a legendary tale but the Rangers bullpen F'ed that up!
- Game 6 of the Series was arguably the greatest Series game ever! Yeah there were a ton of errors, but damn that was exciting!
- Nelson Cruz needs to make that catch in the 10th inning, you're a professional baseball player! WTF!?
- Are the Rangers the Bills of baseball?
- Hey Washington, QUIT PITCHING TO FREESE... WTF!?
Ok, I need to go throw up again. Freaks, it was a dismal baseball season for this guy, my Fantasy team sucked, the Cubs sucked, I didn't make it to Wrigley and the Cardinals won the World Series, it really doesn't get any worse than that... Thank God for Football! As always, I'm Trevor Anthony, a guy's guy.
