… So Favre didn’t show up to training camp after all. But he’s still hoping for a trade…
Who cares!?
We’ve got Brewers-Cubs baseball, baby!!
… Kates and I tried looking for tickets last night. How stupid were we … We didn’t stand a chance; all four games are sold out -- even Thursday’s day game. A day game -- on a Thursday! Crazy.
(Funny story: As Kates and I were getting ready to watch tonight’s game, Kates had just finished feeding Phoebe and Kates stood up with Phoebe on her shoulder. Then, in the blink of an eye, what seemed like a whole gallon of milk erupted from Phoebe’s mouth and fell on our hardwood floor with a loud splat! … ah, the joys.)
Few things could have made tonight’s game more exciting. CC Sabathia on the mound. The crowd was roaring. And it was a back-and-forth affair.
When J.J. Hardy and Ryan Braun hit those back-to-back home runs, I got so loud I woke up Phoebe. Oops.
Then the Cubs took back the lead on the double play ball that Rickie Weeks botched -- which proved to be the defining play of the game …
And it wasn’t over until it was over … With the Brewers down 6-4 and a runner on base in bottom of the ninth, Gabe Kappler stepped to the plate and swung at what the Cubs and the home plate umpire thought was strike three …
Yet, immediately I was thinking the same thing as Kappler while he turned and started protesting the strike three call -- clearly Kapler had tipped that ball, allowing it to bounce into the catcher’s glove. The umpires conferred and ruled that indeed Kapler had tipped the ball and he would see at least one more pitch …
Lo and behold he sends the next pitch soaring deep into left field … but it fell short into Alfonso Soriano’s glove along the warning track …
We’ll do it again tomorrow night.
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