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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Thursday, September 24, 2009And That HappenedBrewers 3, Cubs 2: Prince Fielder pads his stats with a homer and a couple of RBI. It's easy to forget in all of the Cub-drama that Chicago is actually a few games ahead of Milwaukee in the standings.Astros 3, Cardinals 0: And look! The Cubs are technically still alive! If St. Louis just loses its last nine while the Cubs win their remaining. . . er, well, let's just never mind, shall we? According to the game story, St. Louis "had 25 cases of champagne waiting in the clubhouse, but the bottles will remain corked for at least another day." Twenty-five cases? They got, what, 38 guys on the roster right now? Add in eight or ten coaches and trainers and such. This is a road game, so figure that front office staff is light: the GM, an assistant or two, random traveling secretary types. Being generous, we'll call it a complement of 60 people with the team, and then some random media guys who don't care if partying up with the team hurts their credibility. Tops -- absolute tops -- you have 75 people that could even hope to be shooting champagne over one another, though many of these people would never touch a bottle in such a situation because, really, it's the players' thing. Twenty-five cases of champagne makes for 300 bottles. I love drinkin' as much as the next guy, but ain't that overdoing it a bit? And that's before the beer cans you always see guys throwing into the celebratory shower. Oh, one more thing: The Cubs play tomorrow and the Cardinals don't, which means that they can clinch on their day off if Chicago loses to San Francisco. What the hell happens to those 300 bottles if they clinch while on a day off? Do soup kitchens take booze? Giants 5, Diamondbacks 2: Bruce Bochy: "We're still breathing. There's still hope." Four games back. Braves 5, Mets 2: The ghost ship that is the New York Mets continues to drift aimlessly around the National League, its crew having all but abandoned it, a lamentable calm having descended over its decks. The Braves, like the Giants, sit four back of Colorado. Tigers 11, Indians 3: Four RBI and two homers for Carlos Guillen keep the Tigers two and a half up on Minnesota. Twins 8, White Sox 6: The lights went out in U.S. Cellular Field. What's worse, they hung my brother before I could say that the tracks he saw while on his way to Andy's house and back that night were mine. Red Sox 9, Royals 2: Josh Beckett gave up 12 hits, but they weren't as big as the ones Luke Hochevar gave up. Marlins 7, Phillies 6: Brad Lidge in the playoffs is gonna be something special to behold. Last year's Mr. Automatic blows yet another save, this one a one-run lead in the ninth. He was apparently getting the calls too, because Fredi Gonzalez was ejected with two out in the ninth for arguing balls and strikes. Lidge wouldn't record another one, however, and his legend continues to grow. Rays 5, Mariners 4: B.J. Upton had three RBI and made a spiffy catch to rob Bill Hall of extra bases to end the game. Game story: "Seattle 1B Russell Branyan (back) took 35 swings off a tee." Despite this, his downswing is too steep, his swing path is too outside-in, and his clubface is open. Mariners' hitting coach Alan Cockrell is watching him closely, but he's still cutting across the ball and pull-slicing it. Reds 12, Pirates 2: Homer Bailey is 4-1 with a 1.99 ERA over the past month. It will be fun to see how many fantasy players key on this strong finish to the season, declaring Bailey a sleeper, without realizing that three of those wins came against Pittsburgh. And now, Deep Thoughts, with your host, John Russell: "Obviously, when you don't score runs, it doesn't look like you're playing very good. That's one of the things that always looks bad -- you don't score and the other team's scoring a lot, then they look a whole lot better than you do." Blue Jays 7, Orioles 3: Thirty years ago this fall, the Orioles played the Pirates in the World Series. May as well have been a billion years ago. Nationals 5, Dodgers 4: Andre Ethier dropped a fly ball in the ninth, allowing the Nats to win the game. If they had won this one, they would have clinched the west because . . . Padres 6, Rockies 3: The Rockies lost in San Diego, who were powered by Will Venebale's four RBI. Yankees 3, Angels 2: The Angels struck out 15 times in this one. Ian Kennedy loaded the bases and then slithered out of the jam in his first work in over a year. The Yankees took two of three from their potential ALCS foe. Rangers 9, Athletics 8: Of all of the stuff that could be mentioned about this game, this bit -- the last thing in the little notes section of the game story -- is the most interesting: "The Rangers stole four bases and moved past the Angels into second in the AL with 143 steals." I've said it many times this year, but this is not your older brother's Rangers team. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 5:35am Comments
berselius said...
Maybe they were cases of the ‘champagne’ of beers Posted 09/24 at 08:27 AM
Wooden U. Lykteneau said...
FYI: Ethier’s error was on a sacrifice fly with one out = The Nationals would have won the game even if he had caught it. Posted 09/24 at 08:29 AM
MooseinOhio said...
If the intent behind the champagne celebration is not to get drunk but to spray folks will a beverage to express ones joy for winning - shouldn’t they just get 100 plus 2 liters soda and a case of Mentos? It would be significantly cheaper and the spray/explosion of liquid would certainly dwarf anything that a shaken bottle of champagne could produce. Added perk - it’s kid friendly. Posted 09/24 at 08:41 AM
YankeesfanLen said...
Okay, it was a Twins-Sox game many miles from Georgia and almost impossible to drive on Interstates…....oh, I get it! The Sox are the SOUTH side team. Should have saved it for the Braves. Posted 09/24 at 08:58 AM
Detroit Michael said...
Ah, one just doesn’t read enough Vicki Lawrence allusions these days. Posted 09/24 at 09:12 AM
ecp said...
Don’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer, ‘cuz the judge in the town’s got blood stains on his hands… Oh, by the way, Rob, yes, there are 12 bottles of champagne in a case. Posted 09/24 at 09:40 AM
Aaron Moreno said...
It’s just a much heavier case. Posted 09/24 at 11:12 AM
Will said...
I’ve never seen anybody drinking champagne during one of those lockerroom blowouts. It is simply, and obscenely, sprayed all over the place. Posted 09/24 at 11:53 AM
APBA Guy said...
And the champagne in those clubhouse frolics is usually pretty cheap. No Bollinger etc for just spraying around. Or for Craig, since he’s now a Napa Valley devotee, no Schramsberg Blanc de Noir. Normally when I watch games I DVR them then skip the commercials, mound meetings, etc. It cuts the game time in half. But last night’s Rangers/A’s game I fast-forwarded a lot of the pitches. It was just too painful. The first time through the lineup Tommy Hunter had the A’s off balance, lunging. The second time through the entire order semed to be ignoring his off-speed stuff (3/4 of his arsenal) and waiting on his BP fastball. Wash tried to get him through 5 and to the win, but then got greedy into the sixth and that made the game close. Clayton Mortenson, the A’s 100th rookie starter this year, brought new meaning to the words “hanging curve”. According to the pre-game he’s supposed to be a sinker ball pitcher, but the only thing sinking was that feeling in my stomach every time Hank Blalock came to the plate against him. Posted 09/24 at 01:08 PM
Marshall said...
Padres 6, Rockies 3: The Rockies lost in San Diego ... The game was in Denver. I’m sure you meant: Posted 09/24 at 01:42 PM
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Isn’t a case of champagne only 6 bottles? Perhaps they only have 125?
Then again, this *is* the Cardinals.