Weekend Wrap Up - Monday is Upon Us! (It'll Be Fine, Maybe)

And here we are!  Sunday afternoon, so let's dance!

Not that sorta David Bowie "Let's Dance" type of thing...more of a let's recap the weekend, move in the general direction of Sunday night and make it a happy Monday morning (if there ever was one).  For those of you unaware of the image pasted above, that my friends is Heisenberg.  If you do not know who he is, you should...and if you do not care to know, you have been warned.  It's your call really, I don't care because I already know.  It's that simple.  My wife has been using this as her fantasy football team name for the past few seasons, and I must say it is well played.  The mild mannered Mr. Walter White becomes the take no prisoners, Heisenberg.  Embracing the IJDGAF (inquire within) attitude of Heisenberg with the mild mannered high school science teacher.  

I am still taking requests for fantasy baseball/football team names...don't be shy!

Anyway, let's dance!  Have you ever watched a professional baseball game where one pitcher hits a player on the other team with a pitch and then the next inning or the inning after that the opposing pitcher hits the best player on the other team with a slow curve ball in the back?  It's kind of one of those "unwritten" rules. It happens all of the time.  The umpire warns everyone, players get semi-testy and it kinda dies down after the second guy get hit with an errant pitch in the back.  Yes, it is 100% dumb...100% (I repeat) dumb! I get it if the first guy is trying to hurt the other team but generally an Arizona Diamondbacks-Pittsburgh Pirates game doesn't quite warrant that level of stupidity.  Which leads me to quote one of my favorite movies Snatch - "You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity" - Bullet Tooth Tony.  Essentially what I am getting at is this - http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11303611/paul-goldschmidt-arizona-diamondbacks-likely-rest-season

Paul Goldschmidt (All Star first baseman) gets hit in the hand with an errant pitch in Friday night's game against the Pirates (where the Bucs are leading 9-4) and his season is over...broken hand out around 8 weeks...that's October.  Sucky but it happens.  I really, really do not think that Ernesto Frieri meant to do it...at all.  It would make zero point zero sense for him to purposely hit him at all.  BUT Arizona pitcher Randall Delgado felt it was required of him to hit the other team's best player at some point...randomly in the next game...in the ninth inning...in the middle of the back with a 95 MPH heater...makes sense.  Randall Delgado, you are a certified jerk bag.  There it has been said.  This makes no sense, it's just stupid...but as Bullet Tooth Tony mentioned earlier, "You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity" because this is what baseball is all about.  Pitcher A pitches inside, Pitcher B pitches inside, Pitcher A (or B) is the first one to hit someone, Pitcher (the other one) must drill a guy in the middle of the back where that whole spine/nerve center thing is or let down his team.  Dumb, very dumb.  Do pitchers initiate this action sometimes, of course...but when they don't I really think it's insane for it to fall to a guy playing CF when the whole thing went down.  Just my opinion.

And this guy wants to buy the Buffalo Bills - 

You are from New Jersey, you're wearing a Patriots hat and you want to buy the Bills....who are you?  Really, who are you?  

Enjoy the rest of your weekend or your Monday morning!!

Happy Watching!