My six year-old woke up this morning and put the game on DVR (having been made to go to bed long before it ended cuz it was a school night). A while later, as his mother was yelling at him (ok, me) to turn the tv off and get dressed, he asked if we could just “fast forward to the part where Murphy hits a home run.” I…

Very fair point; not unreasonable and if that’s your view, respect. My point is — kind of like the guy above who is joking about the Koufax Willow — that the “tradition” of having ivy-covered walls shouldn’t necessarily trump all other considerations.

I am the David “Lard Ass” Hogan of Kinja.

How do you know I’ve never been to Wrigley?

You shut your mouth when you are talking to me.

No I was not implying you are a Cubs fan, else I would not have promised that it gets better. It was the unbridled, vitriolic New York hatred that made me smile.

Mets fans hardly brim with confidence. LOLMETS is like an actual thing.

I love this reply so much. Hang in there, brother. It gets better.

No middle ground there, huh? Performing just enough maintenance on the vegetation within the field of play that is currently so thick that balls hit in fair territory are regularly lost to the fielders is akin to a dystopian nightmare in which every ballpark is exactly the same? Is this your argument? Or do you simply…

+ 1 “Koufax willow” LMFAO

/facepalm. I’m dumb.

I think you missed my point, or I made it poorly. I am not suggesting that anyone cheated last night, that anyone “got away” with anything, or that there was any gamesmanship at all. I am not sure what the hell TC could possibly have been arguing about: the rule was correctly applied. That’s a ground-rule double all…

All the stars for you. At a minimum, can we at least turn off Ernie Johnson’s mic and throw Cal Ripken in the trunk of my car? Ron Darling on his own would be bearable, if not downright enjoyable.

As a Mets fan, sure, but also as a baseball fan, I am really glad the ground-rule double into the ivy didn’t impact the outcome of the game. That had inside-the-park HR potential. At a minimum, Conforto scores. I am sure that Cubs fans will be horrified at the notion of cleaning up the leaves out there, but I mean,…

Scorching hot take! And from a fellow admirer of Jordany Valdespin. smdh.

1. Don’t to do this to me, Albert.

The league has a bigger problem on its hands anyway. Two high school teams went on national television last night wearing exact replicas of the Giants’ and Eagles’ uniforms. Cease and desist, kids!

No word yet on whether the Devil took out a similar policy on Daniel Murphy’s soul.

+1

That’s one lucky Raccoon. I would much prefer to have been captured in a net and presumably euthanized than sit through that flaming pile of turtle dung they called a football game.