Alright, let’s talk about this Phillies and Cubs game, you know, the baseball thing. Don’t know much about fancy stats, but I watched the game, and I can tell ya who did good and who didn’t.
Phillies versus Cubs, huh? Sounds like a mouthful. Anyway, they played, and somebody won, somebody lost. That’s how it goes. One time, my chickens fought, same thing, one wins, one runs away squawking.
So, this Bryce Harper fella, he was good for the Phillies, I think. Hit the ball real hard a few times. Reminds me of my grandson hitting rocks with that old stick he found. Except Harper, he gets paid a whole lot more, I reckon. He was like the hero, you know? Like in them stories on the TV. He batted good, that’s what they said. Don’t ask me what “batted” means exactly, but he did it good.
- Phillies got some fellas who hit the ball.
- Cubs got some too, but not as many, I guess.
- One team scored more, that’s the winner. Simple as that.
Now, this Edmundo Sosa, they said he hit a fly ball, a short one. And that got somebody home, or somethin’. Made a run, they call it. Sounds like when my cow gets loose and runs around the pasture, but I don’t think it’s the same thing. Anyway, it was important, they said. He helped the Phillies, I think. Things got all tied up, then untied because of that little fly ball. Baseball’s a funny game, ain’t it?
The Cubs, they won one game big, like 10 to 2. That’s a lot, even I know that. Ten is way more than two. My grandpappy used to say, “A win’s a win, no matter how many,” but I reckon winning by a lot feels better. They got the score somewhere, they call it a “box score.” Sounds like somethin’ you bury, not somethin’ you read. But it tells you who did what. Who hit, who ran, who caught. I just watch, I don’t need no box.
These teams, the Phillies and the Cubs, they’ve been playin’ each other forever, seems like. Over two thousand games, they said on the TV. One team won a bit more than the other, but I can’t remember which. It’s like them old stories my grandma used to tell, who won what war, who married who… it all blurs together after a while. They showed some fella named Charlie Root, he won a whole bunch of games for the Cubs way back when. Two hundred and one! That’s a lot of wins. He must have been good, real good. Like my prize-winning rooster back in ’68, nobody could beat him.
They talk about the last ten games these two played. Who won, who lost, who hit home runs…all that stuff. I don’t pay too much attention to all that. Just tell me who won today, that’s all I care about. But some folks like numbers, they like to know every little thing. My son-in-law, he’s like that. Always got his nose in the newspaper, lookin’ at scores and stats. Says it helps him understand the game better. Me? I just watch. Seein’ is believin’, that’s what I say.
So, the Phillies and the Cubs. They played some baseball, some hit good, some hit bad. One team won, one team lost. That’s the story, ain’t it? Don’t need no fancy stats to tell you that. Just gotta watch the game. Like watchin’ the corn grow, you know? Slow sometimes, but somethin’ always happens. And that’s what makes it interesting.
They had this thing called “live coverage” and scores and stats on some channel, CBS Sports they called it. My neighbor has it on his fancy TV, I went over there to peek a bit. Sounded like a lot of yelling and numbers. Too much for me. I like watchin’ the game, not hearin’ about it all the time. Like eatin’ a pie, you don’t need someone tellin’ you it’s good, you just know.
This Fubo thing, they said you could watch the game on it too. Sounds like somethin’ from the future. We had a radio when I was young, that was fancy enough. Now they got everything on them little boxes and phones. Too much, if you ask me. Just give me a good seat and a hot dog, and I’ll watch the game. That’s all a body needs.
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