Introducing: The Goat
I've complained here and there about various performances (notably Lohse's last night), but for the first time this season there has been a lousy outing of such epic proportions I feel compelled to whip out TBL's most dubious honor: the Goat Award. (TBL's least dubious honor, by the way, is the Hero Award, and is still awaiting its first appearance of the season.)
The Goat Award goes to a player who doesn't just have an off night, but hacks up such a spectacularly bad performance that he appears to be actively working against his own team, and indeed against the very laws of nature, physics and probability. Any player "winning" the Goat Award five times in a single season will be crowned Emperor Crappius Maximus and forever enshrined in the Hall of Shame.
And the first 2005 Goat Award goes to the player who:
Michael Cuddyer, you are the Goat.
6 rejoinders:
I miss Corey.
You and me both, Publius. You and me both.
Be patient, it's his first year as a starter. He will come around.
As the buzzards say in the cartoon: "Patient, my ass ... I want to kill something!"
I think his fielding generally has been very good this past week; nice range and he's shown off a rocket of an arm. Now if he can just get that bat heated up this week....
Just so everyone's clear on this--if it had been Torii, not Cuddyer, who had that horrible night, Torii would have been the Goat. It's not about a player's usual performance, it's about a single, spectacularly crappy game! :D
Go On, Spit It Out