Was pointed towards a little nugget of joy by Tom C. of Phillies Breakdown yesterday, found on Huston Street’s MLBlog.
We can all agree that the officiating in this particular series was awful, with bad calls going both ways. At this point, it has been beaten into the ground by the blog chatter, the radio and TV outlets, the mainstream media, conversations with your Pop, the watercooler, the senior citizens’ mixers that some of us go to when we’re looking to spice up our love lives, etc.
All you can do is stop whining about it. Take it from Zen Master Street:
You can either spend time thinking about what’s unfair, or you can spend time thinking about changing your situation. So any energy spent on feeling sorry for yourself is wasted energy.
Sound final thoughts from a top-notch* closer, especially after he spent the three preceding paragraphs bitching about the controversial Chase Utley foul-ball/infield single that made Howard’s ensuing sac fly possible during Sunday night’s 6-5 victory over the Rockies:
The single by Chase Utley in the ninth inning should have been a foul ball. He hit it, and the ball definitely hit his leg. The umpires didn’t see it.
I also thought he was out at first base, but they said my throw pulled Todd Helton off the bag… Now we have to win to stay alive.
We can argue all night long whether the ball hit him. We can argue all night long whether he was safe at first base. Actually, there’s not much of an argument. It’s right there on video.
As long as you don’t spend too much time and energy dwelling on everything that you want to scream about … You’ve got to move past it. You have to be stronger than the situation.
Just because you’re not openly calling the umps “no-good shit-for-brains fucktard morons” (like most of us were) doesn’t mean you’re not bitching, Street. And as much as you spout off half-baked Tony Robbins bullshit in an attempt to sound calm and collected, you should keep in mind that plenty of shitty calls went against the Phillies this past week, too. *coughStairscough*
- Nice Gams.
Street isn’t as bad as some of our local guys, who stop just short of claiming the umpiring won Game 4 for the Phillies. It’s bad sportsmanship if the loser talks down to the ability of the winner after a competition, but what exactly is it called if you do just that to the team you’re covering?
From Randy Miller:
Next up Dodger Blue – with many thanks to the men in blue. Phillies fans, feel free to pack care packages to the World Umpires Association in Neehan, WI… the biggest reason the Phillies put away the Colorado Rockies in a wild NLDS is an umpiring crew that shouldn’t have one member seeing an inning in the NLCS.
Jerry Meals and Ron Kulpa ignited the Phillies’ game-winning rally in Sunday night’s Game 3 thriller, then crewmates Angel Hernandez, Tim Timmons, and Gerry Davis – working without a blind-men’s cane – took turns coming to the Phillies’ rescue in Game 4.
Don’t give the umpires too much credit there, ol’ “Randarino.” I know you were probably desperate for an angle, but that’s not the right angle to take unless you’re writing for The Denver Post. Like I said before, bad calls went both ways, and both teams failed to capitalize on many occasions.
- Feliz popped out on a first-pitch swing after this “safe” call. So why even bring it up as something “helpful?”
The only people that “ignited” the Phillies’ rally in Game 3 were the members of the Philadelphia Phillies.
The only people that came to the Phillies’ “rescue” in Game 4 were the members of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Don’t get it twisted.
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October 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I know some guys who need orders of french cries to go with their whamburgers!
/JoeDirt’d
October 13th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
stop bitchin, huston
October 13th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
/tug’d
October 13th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Still don’t understand the Stairs thing. The pitches were a few inches off the plate.. thats always called a strike. It’s not new to see a wide strike zone. The same pitches were called balls to Howard. So to recap, we got shafted on calls to Matt Stairs, our worst hitter, but they were made up with Howard batting, AND we got helped out with Chase’s at bat. I think we did ok..
October 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Tug nails it — the umps were awful. Just flat-out awful. But they were awful both ways. Isn’t there at least one Denver writer that can admit to that?
PS. Who the flying fark is Randy Miller and why should I ever read his dreck again? Who reads phillyburbs.com anyway???
October 13th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
It was in the sports section of today’s Burlington County Times, that bastion of fine journalism.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Randy Miller is a good writer. Although he hit a bump in the road with this article.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
shut up huston street.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
if i ate 4 dicks a day, id be a grumpy closer too
October 13th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I don’t waste too much time bitching about balls and strikes because there are way too many missed calls there to worry about who got the better end of it. It all evens out in my opinion, although every once there is a simply horrendous ball/strike call at the worst possible time.
The real problems are the calls that can often be made from the stands that are somehow embarrassingly missed. The ball that landed fair in the Twins game, quite a few plays at first in the series, and Torrealba being tug out at third come to mind. Those calls MUST be made.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I think I missed something with the asterisk after “top notch” and before closer. Someone come to my house and kick me in the balls if I’m just being Helen Keller here.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
let me say this, we keep telling the rockies fans to stop saying that the umps gave us that series, but honestly if we lost, id be saying that the umps gave the series to the rockies
im not saying it was givin to us, but a few calls coulda changed a few things, no one will ever know, and i dont give a fuck cuz we won and they didnt
a game like Game 4 can never be “given” to a team, that shit was hard earned and deserved
October 13th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
My bad Nut. I always assume everyone just lives in my head.
* denotes sarcasm when I write.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
The quickest way from Philly to L.A.? Huston Street.
-stolen from a friend
October 13th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
graham, ur friend is a genius
October 13th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Graham, is your friend.. everybody?
October 13th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
i wish! but no, he’s just a single person.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Even if the ump said that the ball hit Utley, he was still in the batters box and still would have still been alive at the plate. He could have jerked the next pitch into the seats. The Rockettes and their fans are a bunch of panty waists.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Yeah i thought that Huston Street joke was pretty funny when I first heard it at 9 am this morning. Not so much by the 10th time at 9:15 am…
October 13th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
The quickest way from
PhillyColorado to L.A.? Huston Street.-stolen from a friend
/Your friend sucks
October 14th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Fink is right, even if the ump called a foul ball on chase we all know mr utley woulda drilled a hit leavin no doubt in anybodies mind who the defending wfc are!
The umps screwed the twins…like the yankees need any help with that “all star” team and helpin the angels out was them feelin sorry for the halos always losing to boston.
If they did make calls to benefit the phils its only cuz they are showing the proper respect to the defending champions and anyway its about phuckin time that philly gets calls goin our way so fuck you randy miller go fuck a goat!
October 14th, 2009 at 9:03 am
All you need to know about Randy is that he has an AOL account. NUFF said.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Quick Nibbles! Chew through my ball sack!
October 14th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
the phils definitely got the benefit of the doubt on alot of calls in this series, for once. its nice to be defending champs.