And now a quick check-in with my Pittsburgh Cruds, prompting the usual loud protests from the usual suspects.
(These include "Nobody cares about your stupid baseball team!", and also "Gaaah! Baseball! Why can't we talk about stuff Americans care about, like soccer and Irish hurling?" To name just two of the usual protests.)
In any case, if you haven't been paying attention ("Oh, HELL, no!"), the Cruds are making a valiant effort to defend their last-place title. They've lost six in a row now and are 10 games below .500.
However ...
However, they're still in third place in NL Central, because the stupid Cubs and the stupid Reds won't cooperate.
The stupid Cubs, see, have also lost six in a row, and remain a game-and-a-half adrift of the Cruds. And the Reds have lost five of their last six to remain in last, two-and-a-half games behind the Cubs and four behind my Cruds.
This is, of course, an intolerable situation. Because if the Cubs and the Reds continue to stubbornly suck, too, and the Cruds wind up finishing third, management will say "See? Our 30-year plan to be a farm team to actual major-league teams is working!" And they'll continue not to invest in the team ("Because if we can finish third without trying, why actually try?"), and the Blob will be pushing up daisies before they finish above .500 again.
Gaaah!
To coin a phrase.
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