Baseball is a ROTTEN sport

I''m watching the Toronto Blue Jays on television. They are leading 3-0 in the top of the ninth inning, when Jose Bautista walks to the plate for his at-bat, and he hits 3-2 fastball high into left-center field. Bautista has 29 homeruns, 61 runs batted in, and life is good; really good.

Later, the bottom of the ninth starts with Frank Francisco on the mound: Not so good. The last half-inning begins with a basehit to center field, a double to right field, and a walk to Cleveland switch hitting Asdrubal Cabrera before John Farrell replaces Francisco with the left handed pitcher Luis Perez. Things are not good, I thought, but they become a lot worse.

While Perez strikes out the first batter he faced on a full count, an RBI single follows. Then, with the bases still loaded Cleveland's favourite slugger, albeit with seven home runs thus far in the 2011 campaign, Travis Hafner stands in and promptly puts the first pitch into the right field stands.

As the ball takes flight and enters Saturn's orbit, I realize something: When I get angry I shout short, low sounding words like "NO!", walk out of the room, go outside, and then mutter sentences using words like "rotten", "rotten stinking", and "lousy rotten stinking". The favourite refrain I repeat, whenever I'm upset, is "baseball is a rotten sport made by rotten people in the rotten time because they were rotten..."

Note to self: Don't mutter ridiculous words and sentences when your next door neighbour comes out of his house and gets in his car.

I'm still a little upset, so that's why I'm writing...

For a video description of the ridiculousness and another unfair Blue Jays defeat, copy & paste or simply click here. By the way, the photo is taken by JASON MILLER of GETTY IMAGES by way of an article for the National Post by its wonderful staff. THANKS JASON MILLER for taking sweet photos :)