DODGERS Dodgers vs. Rays - WORLD SERIES

Last thing I think I wanna say about last night cause what else can you say is: we’ve had lots of losers and choking moments over the years. From Kershaw to Cody to Dave to Mattingly to Darvish to Puig to Adrian yada yada

all of those dudes have in some form after the game accepted blame, given a cliche quote of needing to learn and work from it, given insight to thought process, but actually seemed human and relatable, at a minimum after it

Kenley yesterday, during a postseason where they lost trust and then he came back looking good and used his couple good outings to stare into the dugout menacingly, comes out and deflects all fucking blame and spouts bullshit after bullshit. It doesn’t change anything if he’s remorseful it honestly doesn’t but it does make it a million times easier to hate the dude

 

I woke up feeling like shit.

Prove me wrong but I feel this is leading to another choke job

 

notice how uncharacteristically upset roberts got at games end last night?
usually he'll try and spin some positive onto it
but then he went with "i can't believe we botched that play" and, essentially, shit on his players (particularly smith and taylor) and gave kenley a free pass
but here's what i saw... he wasn't upset that his team lost the game
he was upset that they lost it for kenley
he wanted so badly for kenley to be absolved of his past failures and, more than anything, HE wanted to be proven right for forcingbringing kenley into the game
you could see what was happening an inning before...
when smoltz and buck were quoting roberts, saying how "kenley looked better that last outing than he had in years"
sounds like an abused wife trying to justify staying with their abusive spouse
you cannot manage based on emotion
you cannot have favorites
you cannot treat someone better than they deserve
kenley is an entitled spoiled cunt
otherwise he would have backed up home plate (baseball 101 btw) and taken at least some accountability
kenley is a douche and a horrible teammate
but by treating him like he's something he's not (i.e. capable) you're giving him a false sense of security
in kenley's case that turns to entitlement
as much as i despise kenley, this is not all on him
you cannot continually put someone in a position to fail
this is mostly on roberts
fuck both of them

i will not commit another 3+ hours to watching this trainwreck
i'll be playing golf at 5pm, and then coming home to watch around 6:30-7pm
and, oh yeah... thanks for making my turner jersey vulnerable roberts
go fuck yourself

 

But, it’s a new day and it’s up to the players tonight: bounce back from last night, gain all momentum again. Rays will only win if you choke away plays and lose momentum. You’re still the better team. Make the win easy and out of anyone else’s hands. A comfortable lead and it doesn’t matter what Kershaw or anyone else does. Simple as that! They’re gonna need it cause there’s honestly no great answer down there to get comfortable high leverage outs so the solution is: give no high leverage spots

 

The whole world is laughing at us again

 

we'll lose tonight and it'll all be over on tuesday
i love kershaw and would love for him to come through
but it's just not going to happen

 

Today was supposed to be a day full of excitement/anticipation and instead it feels like I am waiting on a funeral.