I'm having a difficult time figuring out how professional athletes, most of whom are paid millions of dollars a season, sometimes can't hit
I'm referring, of course, to the Chicago Cubs, who were held scoreless and with only two hits last night by Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League playoffs.
The Cubs, who lost, 1-0, permitted Kershaw to look like Cy Young, in whose memory an award is given each season to the best pitcher in the league.
As long as I'm writing about how someone resembled someone else, Kershaw made the Cubs look like Little Leaguers in the game at Wrigley Field.
Or, as one of the announcers [whose hair was dyed red] on today's local early-morning show on KCCI , kept calling it, Wrigley Stadium without anyone else on the program correcting her.
For the benefit of that uninformed announcer and her cohorts on channel 8, the Cubs' ballyard has been called Wrigley Field since 1927.
Anyway, I'm finding if very hard to understand why the Cubs couldn't score one run.
Or how Joe Maddon [pictured], who is being paid millions of dollars to manage the Cubs, couldn't figure out some type of strategy that would produce some sort of offense.
Like a hit-and-run.
Like a bunt or two.
The Cubs were totally unimaginative against the Dodgers, evidently waiting in vain for Javier Baez or someone else to hit a home run that would tie or win the game.
Shame on Joe Maddon and his punchless players.
It made for awful TV.
