
Hank Schulman went insane yesterday, translating a sequence of events and reactions from the Dodgers/Giants game in the most illogical way possible, basically so that they would fit his narrative.
Many fans here booed when Kemp misplayed Melky ball, didn’t reach Arias RBI single.If that’s what they were booing, they’re total idiots.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) May 8, 2012
Honestly, I think Schulman has lost his fucking marbles. That’s my honest assessment.
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Dodgers fans didn’t boo Matt Kemp when he actually made the error on Melky Cabrera‘s single, as it was silent in the stadium, probably because they were worried that the Giants just put the tying run on.
Then Joaquin Arias singled to center and the tying run scored. Fans proceeded to boo.
Now, any reasonable person would conclude that Dodgers fans were booing the fact that their hated rival just tied the game at one in the sixth inning, but Schulman?
Oh no, my friend.
Now I’m getting Tweets saying fans weren’t booing Kemp. Just booing a Giants run. What a load of crapola. They were booing Kemp, period.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) May 8, 2012
How in the flying fuck one concludes that fans were booing Kemp instead of a game-tying single is beyond me.
The hit was a clean single that landed about 15 feet short of Kemp and 5 feet to his left, meaning that either the fans were booing Kemp’s effort on a line drive single OR that the goddamn Giants just scored the game-tying run.
Hm…
So just to recap, the fans didn’t boo Dee Gordon when he tried to make three errors on a single play in the previous inning, and the fans didn’t boo Kemp when he actually made the error on the play Schulman was talking about. Yet, Dodgers fans apparently decided to bust out the boo birds on Kemp because of a clean single to center that nobody on this planet would have had a shot at catching.
Oh yeah, that certainly sounds more plausible than booing the Giants.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe fans were expressing deep-seated hatred for Joaquin Arias.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) May 8, 2012
Dodgers fans were expressing a deep-seated hatred for the Giants scoring the tying run in the sixth inning. The Dodgers and Giants, they sort of have this rivalry and stuff.
You know, kind of like how Giants fans chant “BEAT L-A” in the third inning.
Now they’re chanting “MVP, MVP” for Kemp. These really are the worst fans in baseball.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) May 8, 2012
To be clear, I’m not criticizing fans for MVP chant, but for doing it after booing Kemp on defense.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) May 8, 2012
Jon Weisman already handled this ridiculousness from a different angle, but I wanted to comment from my perspective as well.
Not only has Schulman convinced himself that fans were booing Kemp instead of the fact that the Giants tied the game, he actually managed to convince himself that Dodgers fans did a complete 180 on their views of Kemp within an inning of play and suddenly decided that he was the MVP.
WE’RE AMAZING!
Maybe though, just fucking maybe, Dodgers fans actually love Kemp, hence the “M-V-P!” chant (which happens all the time), and they were actually booing the Giants as a team during the previous inning because it’s the Giants they hate.
MAYBE.
Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
“He’s gonna need a rocket up his ass to catch this one”.
Which came first – the douchebag San Francisco sports columnist or the douchebag Giants fan? Did Giants fans become douchebags because the Frisco columnists were douches? Or are Giants fans inherently douchebags? These are the questions one should contemplate over a White Russian.
Every team has them.
Over at ESPN’s site, when David Schoenfield linked to Jon’s story, I made the comment that fans have been chanting MVP because Kemp should have won it last year over the juiced-up Milwaukee slugger. That comment got deleted…lol
SweetSpot wrote about it?
Probably because Jon did.
What a douche. That’s about it.
Douchetastic.
#BlameDylan for ribbing him incessantly. Shit is funny as hell. He’s got like an endless supply of fat jokes…
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