Vigilante Sports

I know I’m very late to the dance with this one. Sorry. I was at a wedding and I didn’t get to see the action myself. Let me start by saying that I abhor violence of any kind and don’t support the use of violence to solve problems. I think what Michael Barrett did was wrong and cheap. Now that I got that part of me out… I also thought it was hilarious. From what I’ve seen AJ Pierzynski made a clean play (he has a right to the baseline) when he bowled over Michael Barrett.

Pierzynski has long been considered a bad guy, a bad teammateand an all around douche-bag, so you might say that he had it coming. But that’s not why I was fired up when I heard about it. I was fired up because it showed me that at least someone on the Cubs still had a pulse. Something, quite frankly (Stephen A. Smith), I was starting to question. Their bats have gone silent and their young pitching (read: Marshall, Hill, and Guzman) along with their old pitching (Maddux) have certainly come back to Earth. Of course, when you’re getting the worst (that’s right… THE WORST) run support in the majors, it’s hard to blame the pitchers. It looked like, with Sunday’s win over the White Sox, that the Cubs might have been able to use the emotion of the brawl to awaken the bats and get the pitching back on track. But, if Monday’s 9-1 loss to the impotent Marlins is any indication… they still can’t hit or pitch very well right now.

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