The Cubs Have The Best Record In Baseball And I’m Gonna Rant About That Little Prick Marcus Giles?
It appears that, underneath all of Mark Prior’s recent injuries has lingered a whole other injury, that is the likely result of:
traumatic events, usually from a fall.
If said “traumatic event” turn out to be Prior’s full-on collision with the gnomish Marcus Giles in 2003, then I guess that little prick Giles can now be seated alongside Earl Averill, Gil McDougaland Pete Rose in the “Players Who Derailed Other Players’ Careers” Club. Good for you, you little shit. Your otherwise meaningless baseball career now has some qualification. Congratulations.
Of course, it could always remain speculative that the collision between Giles and Prior, which preceeded an awfully dominant August and September for Prior in 2003, is really the singular event that resulted in his newest injury, but unless Prior fell out a tree when he was kid–something I doubt, as I’m pretty sure that Prior was raised in a giant, oxygen-enfused plastic bubble, which spent many afternoons, extension cord attached to the bubble’s power supply in the back of a running utility van driven by Tom House, on the pitchers mounds at one of Prior’s local area little league ballfields, on days when Prior would, in fact, go “outside”, and tree-climbing would be nearly impossible and expressly forbidden on these excursions–it really does look the collision with Giles was the cause.
It really is sad. Speaking as someone who admits to having harbored very dark and angry thoughts toward Prior the last three years, to see that the beginning of the end for Prior may have had an originating demarcation line, and that it is some sort of freak collision that we all remember clearly, well that really sucks. Fuck you, Marcus Giles.
I’m not even going to rant on Dusty. Yeah, Baker left Prior in the game. But Prior showed no ill effects, as he won all five of his August starts, while allowing three runs total in the month. Had the Cubs organization been able to spot the injury and subsequently corrected it, it would have meant shutting down Prior for the rest of the season, which of course would mean that we’d not have had the 2003 playoffs.
But wait–come to think about it–protecting Prior then, at that moment, probably would have been in the best interests of all parties, seeing as how that fuckhole rode Prior and Wood like dogs anyway and they still didn’t win the pennant. I lied. Fuck you, Dusty.
But fuck you more, Marcus Giles.
Thanks to smg and LoneStarCubsFan at Desipio for the the heads up.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to Hire Jim Essian to get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
CT
bocaj
BigFlax
StPatrick
TDubbs
Pete Rose had an “otherwise meaningless career”? Maybe as an oddsmaker, but certainly not as a ballplayer.