(*Suggested accompaniment: Sad Trombone)
It seems like only a dozen days ago that the Blob was risking the grim remnants of its dwindling Blobophile base by once again bringing up his cruddy Pittsburgh Pirates, which prompted the usual howls of outrage and disgust, and perhaps the occasional pitchfork and torch.
Couldn't help it, though. The Cruds had just submitted a strong candidate for Dumbest Play In Baseball History, and the Blob felt duty-bound to pass it along with a few appropriate comments/choice insults.
Well ... if that seems like only a dozen days ago, it's because it was.
And now the Cruds have done it again.
The latest episode of Stupid Stupid Dumb Stupidness involves a rookie third baseman named Ke'Bryan Hayes, who took Dodgers' pitcher Walker Buehler deep to right yesterday in P-Town and took his home-run trot, tipping his batting helmet to acknowledge the hometown che--
Oops.
Turns out while he was trotting, he forgot to trod on first. Thereby breaking the First Rule of Baseball -- touch 'em all -- and wiping his home run off the books.
I suppose here is where I'm supposed to say something witty and cutting about the nuclear blockheadedness of my Cruds. But I used up my supply of witty and cutting some time ago.
All I got left is this.
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