Before we get to baseball today, it’s time for one of my golden tips on men’s fashion. There is a certain stop on the train-line, which shall remain nameless, in which every other guy is dressed as if he’s headed to the golf course. Given the dearth of golf courses in the Loop, I can only assume these men are dressing this way to go to work.
Don’t.
If you are wearing black pleated pants and anything emblazoned with Tiger Wood’s personal logo to the office, you are doing it wrong. ”David Duval” is not the look you should be going for.
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Hey, the Cubs managed to win a game last night, and Jeff Samardzija managed to look pretty decent.
Samardzija matched a career high with 11 strikeouts, and Darwin Barney and Alfonso Soriano each hit a two-run homer to lift the Cubs to a 7-1 victory over the Astros on Monday night for their second win in the last 12 games.
“Any time your eight-hole hitter is hitting two-run home runs, it’s going to be a good day,” Samardzija said.
Even so, Cubs fans were less-than-interested. Last night’s reported attendance of 31,000 was the lowest reported of the season. However, per usual, it looked like there were a whole lot less people than that there. I can’t really say I blame anyone. We went from two weeks of watching the best athletes in the world do incredible things with their bodies (400 m hurdles, anyone? Pole vaulting? 500 m butterfly?) to watching the Cubs. Kind of a drop-off in talent.
Plus, it was Shark Week.
And I wasn’t the only one sick of watching this team. Dale Sveum continues his one-man campaign to destroy Starlin Castro:
Starlin Castro was in the No. 5 hole on Monday, though Sveum said he’d probably be a No. 6 or 7 hitter in a more “prolific” offense and isn’t a top-of-the-order hitter because of his lack of patience.
Look, I get that Sveum is frustrated with Castro. Probably every manager who has ever worked with Castro has been frustrated by him. But the constant ragging on him to the media really needs to stop. I mean, there are a lot bigger problems on this team than Starlin Castro. And, what’s really bewildering is that, in the next sentence, Sveum turns around and says this:
Carlos Marmol has been on the Cubs longer than any other pitcher, turns 30 in October and will earn $9.8 million next season.
Despite those obstacles, manager Dale Sveum said Marmol is considered part of the future and should be back in 2013.
“I don’t see why not right now,” Sveum said. “Knock on wood, he’s been as good as anyone in baseball since he’s been back in the closer’s role and the save opportunities he’s had.”
Right. Because there’s no reason for anyone to think that this team might be better off down the road with someone else as closer. None whatsoever. Castro, on the other hand, is the problem child. Okay.
The Cubs and Astros are back at it tonight at 7:05. Try to stay awake for it.
I made a point early in the season that Castro may end up being traded in the next few years. I believe the arguments I made on that subject are more valid now than they have ever been. I’m not saying he will be traded, but Hoyer is likely to be seriously considering it…especially as Castro hits his arbitration years.
I don’t think anyone is really completely off limits when it comes to trades on this team
and I’m ok with that
There is no way in hell they are going to trade Casey Coleman. Not in a million years will the get rid of that kid.
Marmol is the longest tenured Cubs pitcher right now?
Ugh.
That’s depressing.
I agree with one of your fashion rants for once.
Agreed. You should be going for the Rory McIlroy look. When’s the last time David Duval won anything?
Apparently, if you disregard one win on the Japanese tour in late 2001, it was the 2001 British Open.
What happened to that guy? Remember when he and Tiger were always neck-and-neck?
He was one of the main suspects in golfing circles to have used PEDs. When the PGA started testing these guys, he suddenly got considerably thinner, was often injured, and became bad at golf.
He’s actually played fairly well over the last couple years, but nowhere near the level he was at over a decade ago.
Golfboy look isn’t too bad. On the buses in L.A., you get old-age rapper,old-age pimp, Brooklyn-hipster wannabe,and 60 yr old emo. Golfboy would be an upgrade…
I probably shouldn’t wear my cleats to the office anymore they are tearing up the carpet.
I wish the Cubs were good at baseball so we didn’t have to talk about crap like this.
How dare you call my headlines “crap?”
I didn’t the entire post crap. Just the fashion part. Besides, I like dressing like a golfer.
Fashion is always important!
No. No it is not.
Fashion can relate to politics,art, and history. I once had to write 3,000 words about men’s hair for my English History class.(I have a Minor in English History till 1714)
Golf fashion has no importance in politics, art or history. It is what it is. The only reason fashion has any importance in today’s society is because people who rely on society thinking fashion is important spend billions of dollars every year convincing people that fashion is important when it really isn’t.
With that said, there is some merit in the historical significance of fashion. But in the last century or so, no, it really isn’t that important.
And I wasn’t the one that down voted that.
so there is no merit to the changing of women’s fashion in the last decade, and how it relates to golf?
You try to go play 18 holes in a floor length skirt
I tried once.
Longest might in jail ever.
Tell that to your local person of color in LA. the wrong color,wrong team hat, gets you shot. One of the many reasons I’m glad I don’t root for the Dodgers,Rams,Raiders….
I dress nice because I want to get laid. Not gonna happen in my mustard stained blue jeans that I wore for a week when I was off. I probably should have worn deodorant though.
Polo shirts are the worst.
I couldn’t tell you what pleated pants look like but agree with your dislike of them through the transitive property, since my wife has stressed to me on several occasions that they suck.
Another Sweathog died.
That’s two this year.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/showbiz/obit-palillo/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
At this rate Travolta will probably get his head beat in propositioning the wrong guy at a bathhouse.
What the fuck did I just walk into? (not Julies tree)
Fashion, History class, Travolta, Horshack…
I should have never stumbled out of bed this morning
You miss a little,you miss a lot…
I have a degree in history, not by choice mind you. I still would rather talk sports then about the golf clothes that Julie pointed out that I’m wearing right now. Whats wrong with a cardigan and checkered knee high pants anyways? I think I look cool right now.