Streak ends
The Frontier League released its annual all-star team today, and for the first time in their nine seasons the Wild Things failed to have a player land a spot on the 11-player team. That shouldn't come as a surprise because Washington has been assured of finishing with the worst record in franchise history.
It seems that the Wild Things officially threw in the towel on the season Wednesday night at Lake Erie when outfielder Chris Sidick played all nine positions, becoming the first Washington player to pull off the feat. While it takes a lot for somebody who is not a catcher by trade to get behind the plate, and for an outfielder to pitch and get an out, I feel stunts like that make a mockery of the game.
You have to wonder about how committed the Wild Things were to winning Wednesday when they put Sidick in to pitch in the seventh inning of a tie game. I wonder how Zach Rosenbaum, the pitcher who started the game and has only one win on the season, would have felt if he was pulled with a one-run lead and it was being protected by an outfielder.
Now, back to the all-star teams so we can play a little trivia: Washington has had 16 different players named to the all-league teams (twice they had four players named in the same season). How many of the 16 can you name?
It seems that the Wild Things officially threw in the towel on the season Wednesday night at Lake Erie when outfielder Chris Sidick played all nine positions, becoming the first Washington player to pull off the feat. While it takes a lot for somebody who is not a catcher by trade to get behind the plate, and for an outfielder to pitch and get an out, I feel stunts like that make a mockery of the game.
You have to wonder about how committed the Wild Things were to winning Wednesday when they put Sidick in to pitch in the seventh inning of a tie game. I wonder how Zach Rosenbaum, the pitcher who started the game and has only one win on the season, would have felt if he was pulled with a one-run lead and it was being protected by an outfielder.
Now, back to the all-star teams so we can play a little trivia: Washington has had 16 different players named to the all-league teams (twice they had four players named in the same season). How many of the 16 can you name?
posted by Chris Dugan at
1:43 PM
3 Comments:
Committed? Long ago, packed this season in as lost!
Another limp to the finish line performance tonight, after one last night, and the night before.
Very sad.
Chris Dugan said: " I feel stunts like that make a mockery of the game."
I feel the same way Chris. But if I would have said it before you did everybody that reads this blod, about three of us, would have jumped all over me. I don't know what's with Everson, haven't all season long but,.....what do I know? Everson is allowing the team to "lay down" on him - NEVER a good thing to do. It encourages them to play exactly as they are doing right now - like losers!
I DO know about the Wild Things ownership though - they are just following the Pirates business plan, 'fail so that you can succeed!' Why not,it works for the Pirates! No worries for thw Wild things, Tim Solobay will find some way to bail them out!
I know I'm tired of paying for full season tickets at the regular rate then watching a bunch of jokers pay for a GA ticket and then sit in a box seat next to mine totally unchallenged by the ushers. In some cases the ushers actually tell these cheaters it's okay to sit there. What a way to run a railroad and at the same time, piss off those of us that pay the full fare!
Go figure.
Ron Wilson
I have a great idea for Darin Everson for the last game of the season, and hopefully his last game as WT manager.
Why not rotate every player each inning so ALL of them can play every position in the same game. He doesn’t seem to care if the team wins or losses so I think it would put a period on the end of another terrible season.
I can't believe the WT actually hired this guy. I guess he thinks he is being funny or something with the Sidick thing the other day.
Shouldn't we expect that he would at least pretend he actually cares about wins-loses?
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