Tommy : How long has he been up there?
Suffering Spouse-Figure : Ever since his team was elminated from the postseason.
We’re supposed to believe this schmuck has been stuck in a tree since May?
Tommy : What team does he root for?
Thank you, MLB, for employing a pitchman so mentally destroyed, he doesn’t mind a script that has him asking such a question when the loser in the tree is clearly wearing a Cubs jersey. Holy fuck.
Actually, I can defend Tommy on this in that he isn’t alone in refusing to officially recognize what passed for baseball in Wrigley this year as a big league team.
And anyway, Tommy will have plenty of time this winter to explain to Dodger fans how an ex-Cub pitched his team out of the playoffs in 2007.
And thumbs up to FOX for the lingering shots of crushed Yankee pinwipes at Tiger Stadium this evening. A friend who works in FOX sports told me how the techie Yankee fans who work there gave us plenty of shots of crying Red Sox before their comeback in 2004, but refused to do the same for the Yankees in game 7. Finally, some fair and balanced reporting.
Ben