Captain Mac's Ode to Matt Holliday

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The first 2 games of the Cards bid for the National League Pennant have been stressful, hand-wrenching, frustrating, disappointing...I'm sure you have some other adjectives you could dole out at this point.  And yes, we're aware on the Cornbread Show that almost everyone on the post-season roster has done something...or nothing, to get us to where we are on this Friday the 9th. 

2 games in the hole.  Facing a battle that, at least so far in the history of the NLDS, has never been won...digging out of a 2 game defecit to move on to the NLCS.  But we are also aware that there are moments in baseball that defy explanation and can dash the hopes of Millions fans around the globe.  In our case Thursday, that moment was when Matt Holliday didn't catch a simple fly ball in left field. 

Maybe it was the fact that, out of all the guys on the Cardinals, we had elevated Matt Holliday to a level of "playoff messiah"...and someone of his calibar coudn't possibly make an error so egregious.   Or maybe it was his casual reloading of a new mouthful of sunflower seeds just moments later which rubbed us the wrong way.  No matter.  Friday morning, it wasn't Colby Rasmus' double-turned-out-at-third in the 7th, it wasn't Molina's uncharacteristic failure to block a wild pitch, and it wasn't even Ryan Franklin's continuing struggles to close a game that everyone was reeling about.  It was "hero turned goat" Matt Holliday's brief moment of innacuracy.

Our own Captain Mac helped us heal on the Cornbread Show this morning.  Sometimes, the best way to move on is to laugh at the pain.  Let's hope he'll have a new reason to sing come Monday! 

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-Pat James is Co-Host and Technical Producer of WIL's Cornbread Morning Show, heard weekday mornings from 5:30-10am on 92.3 FM.  You can also check out his photography by visiting his website, A New Leaf Photography, and be sure to join him on Facebook.

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