The Chicago Cubs suck.
I thought I should get that out there before the Cardinal trolls make an appearance to decry my efforts to rip on Matt Holliday for his completely ridiculous, dangerous, and bush league slide in today’s game (pictured, right).
In the fifth inning, Holliday was busting it to second base to break up a double play (fine). But instead of sliding anywhere in the vicinity of second base, he slide late, high, and incredibly wide, directly into Starlin Castro. He didn’t take questions from reporters after the game.
Here’s the video (the play starts at the 20 second mark; sorry for Mac users, the embed may not work for you, so you’ll have to use this link to watch it):
Matt Holliday on behalf of a neutered Cub team I want to say your welcome, can I have another sir. Seriously we didn’t even brush him back? I’m sick to know that my team can be this fuckin whimpy! What kind of support does Castro feel right now? We retaliated when Byrd was cluncked (and that was an accident, although more serious but the Cubs didn’t know that when they retaliated). Of all the unwritten, but mandated and understood, rules we just broke one of the golden. So Matty Holliday thank you for bullying us, do you want my lunch money sir, please wear Ty Cobb ravor shaved spikes next time sir, would you like me to not wear a cup next time sir. Unfucking believable!
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