Play in Games Are Sweet

As I sat down last night at 7:37 to watch the Rocks and Padres I initially thought I was going to do a lot of Remote Control work. I'm addicted to Heroes and Prison Break and thought that I would have atleast mild interest in the Patriots beating the crap out of the Bengals. But I was completely wrong, my remote control remained idle for the entire night. Glued on TBS for the entirety of the best baseball game of the entire season.

The atmosphere, the intensity of the game and the nervousness you got watching the game were second to none. Last night is why people love sports. Every inning there was pressure, every inning either team could have taken it home. There was no reason to go to bed, to reason to change the channel, this was the best show you could possibly get.

The game had millions of story lines and great plays for which to keep you thinking and tuned in:

~Jake Peavy the Cy Young winner was pitching like garbage, yet was left in the game forever.

~Josh Fogg was not my hero.

~How were the Rockies going to piece together their bullpen for the rest of the game with Fogg getting dumped in the fifth.

~The Padres looked in trouble and immediately Gonzo goes deep and flips the switch on who you think is screwed. Then the Rocks fight back take the lead until the Padres tie it up. Then the Pads get the two run homer and the Rocks are in trouble. It was a roller coaster.

~Tim McClelland's strikezone was horrendous and inconsistent the entire game.

~The Kouz who has been mediocre at third base made multiple solid plays including a great play on Helton.

~Todd Helton hits a homerun in the biggest game of his career.

~Brady Clark blew a bunch of plays in centerfield which made you think what if Cameron was playing? Would Cameron have gotten to that diving ball that went off Clark's glove, or those two ball over his head? Would Cameron have gunned the runner out at the plate on the Sac Fly? Why was Mike Cameron in the game in Extras?

~How do the umpires and broadcasters not understand that balls don't ricochet 30 feet off of yellow padding? Atkins ball had to hit some kind of metal, aka the poll behind the yellow padding. Is that bar in play anyway?

~Atkins gets pinch run for for what reason, if this game gets to extras having Jamey Carroll kills their lineup right? And then Carroll gets a hit and the winning sac fly.

~The Padres continue to get the leadoff man on and bunt him over and continue not to score them.

~How is Matt Herges pitching lights out baseball? He's still in the league?

~Matt Holliday and his Batting Title and RBI race coming down to his final at bat.

~Holliday getting tons of MVP love by the fans and than blowing the Giles flyball in the 8th to tie the game.

~Jorge Julio is a miserable pitcher.

~In back to back days future Hall of Famers Tom Glavine and Trevor Hoffman have sealed the demise of their teams.

~And finally Matt Holliday never touched the plate.

I even got into commenting at Awful Announcing on their live blog during the latter portion of the game. During which people continued to question where Hoffman was in the early extra innings to which I responded with them wanting Hoffman to blow the save and that Bud Black is aware that Hoffman is in fact not clutch. Then when they brought in Julio immediately everyones comments went to 'oh shit' Julio is going to blow this game. And then Hoffman comes in and immediately gets rocked.

What a game.

Notes: I expanded on Hoffman being not clutch and possibly not a Hall of Famer this morning at EC if you want another read.