While normally the sports site, Fanhouse, is chock full of interesting articles and analysis (excluding anything by Jay Mariotti), today, they simply went too far with their piece entitled, "Let's Give Holliday A Break" around his blunder in the 9th inning of game two of the STL/LAD series.Author Terence Moore contends that, "folks should lay off Matt Holliday just a little" and procedes to list a few other examples of professional sports blunders including our own Leon Durham in the 1984 NLCS and former Cub Buckner in 1986.
His contention is that, while the errors are not ideal, they are not the sole reason that any one team lost the game or series. Our contention is that Terence Moore is an idiot.
I mean, really? We're supposed to feel sympathy for Holliday? Lest you forget, Holliday makes $13,500,000 a year to play a game. His only job is to hit the ball, play defense and determine a clever name for his foundation. While the rest of the country faces a recession, rising unemployment, a potential nuclear Iran, we should all get out our wah-wah tissues and shed a tear for Matt Holliday? No thank you. We'd take our Ted Lilly Fan Club Time Machine and travel back to 1908 to see our Cubs win the World Series against the Tigers.
Even worse is Holliday's excuse: That he lost the ball in the Busch Stadium lights. Wow--that's the best he can do? Shouldn't Cardinals PR head Brian Bartow be able to come up w/ something better than that? Maybe Holliday's dog eat his homework too?
Sure--as Cubs fans, we are bred to hate the Cardinals so we're clearly biased but it's insane to think that Holliday deserves any measure of sympathy for messing up. He had a job to do and he failed. Clear as day. Enjoy your off-season Mr. Holliday.
Photo above is from Darren Cummings, AP
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