Tough day for the NL West...or not?

***7/22/08: ARCHIVED FROM MYSPACE BLOG***

So today was a pretty bad day for the NL West I must say....everyone lost: the Rockies, D'Backs, Giants (no surprise), and the Padres (tear, tear).

Oh wait, but the Dodgers smashed on the Marlins (finally), so all is not lost.  So, yet again the Blue Crew is one game back from 1st in the West with the Madres still leading.  I must say, I watched the last inning of the SD/ATL game, ATL had it in the bag, 5-1, but their closer (Wickerman? something like that..) just about choked.  2 outs, bot. 9th, 4 hits in a row...Kouzmanof, B. Giles, etc. man what a retard...and I don't know if Saltalamaccha was on first for the Knaves but if he was, what the hell were you doin buddy; if he hustled, he had two long grounders go by him that would've ended the inning.  But NO.  5-2 Padres, 5-3, 5-4, then still runners on 1st and 2nd.  Finally with little Giles up to bat, 0-2, and he got a fucking major present from the umpire.  Strike 3 WAAAY on the outside.  So yea, that sucks for San Di-ago (a whale's vagina), but who cares, it's not like it doesn't happen to everyone--it's not like it hasn't happened to us.  (Especially in the last month--Pierre called out on 3 base steals that weren't even close...they were obvious steals.  Trust, if someone's out, even if it's close, I'll agree; but those were bad calls.  And Martin, too, on game 2 of the last series vs. the Padres.  Called out sliding into 3rd...an obvious safe steal; the 3rd out!  We were on a roll; it would've been the winning run, but because of that, we went tied into extra innings and lost by one run...BULLSHIT.  Yes, I'm still bitter about that.)

The moral: everyone gets bad calls; being an ump is difficult.  So I'll take that SD loss and of course, THE L.A. WIN!

 So yea, tough day for the NL West, but not for the BLUE CREW!