Finishing-Relative in all sports

I am sure by now everyone has seen the Phil Cuzzi  blown call on the Joe Mauer shot down the line.  Major  League Baseball has extra umps for the post season and Cuzzi clearly did not do his job.

Cuzzi made two mistakes on the play.

1-Not seeing the ball hit off of Melky Cabrera's glove

2-The ball was clearly fair.

A mistake like that makes you wonder why they have extra umpires sitting on a line to do one job and they still can not seem to get it right. Phil you have to get that call right, but despite your mistake, you are not to blame for the Twins loss. The Twins made many mistakes in the game that cost them the game.

The first of the many mistakes came when in the fourth inning when Carlos Gomez trip rounding second after Matt Tolbert single. The result of this mistake was Delmon Young's run not counting because Gomez got tagged out before Young could score.

People also seem to have forgotten that Joe Nathan blew a save in the ninth when Alex Rodriguez hit a cannon shot to center.  If Nathan nails down the save, most people watching the game (including me) probably do not even know who Phil Cuzzi is.

Despite the blown save, the Twins STILL had a chance to win the game. in the top of the 11th. After the blown call they got three straight hits to load the bases with no outs.  With no outs and MLB baseball players coming up, most fans believe they are going to get at least one run. Unfortunately for Twins, Young, Gomez, and Harris did not step up to produce that one run they needed.

Baseball is like many sports in the sense when you do not take advantage of great opportunities, it comes back to bite you. Mark Texiera came up in the bottom half of the inning and hit a walk off shot to win the game. Everyone who is not a Yankees fan is either angry or depressed like many Twins fans were.

The lesson to be learned here is that you have to finish and take things into your own hands. Twins fans and baseball fans in general should not look to Phil Cuzzi. Remember the fact that the Twins still had chances to win the game and did not come through in the clutch.


-Mike Moreau