The division race is over. The 2021 season is over. It is time to concentrate on 2022. I am officially done with this team. For the first time (I think?) in our 22-year history, I am stepping down as the manager. I have handed off that duty to the MP. I have zero interest in managing this group of players any longer. It is pointless, and it is a waste of my time.
Our three-game deficit in the McGowan Division ballooned to five games thanks to a series loss -- at home -- against the Joplin Miners. Dan Vogelbach, who was discarded by the Los Altos Undertakers earlier this season and plucked off the free agent garbage dump by Doyle -- despite the fact that Doyle will have to pay $1.1 million at the end of this season to cut him -- hit two crucial home runs in the series, and was easily the MVP. (Note: although I say Doyle will have to pay to cut him, we all know Doyle won't be around at that point, so he won't pay any penalty whatsoever.)
The coup de grace was when noted wife-beater Marcell Ozuna -- discarded by the Highland Freedom earlier this year -- hit a game-winning pinch-hit grand slam home run in Game Three off of Jon Gray, who just happens to be one of the best pitchers in this game at preventing right-handed hitters like Ozuna from hitting home runs.
That was the straw that finally broke this camel's back.
Oh -- I also got to experience something I never thought was possible! Jim Doyle actually found a way to be even more of an annoying asshole than he already is! Throughout all three games that I managed, Doyle repeatedly took the first pitch, just to prolong the agony. And despite putting a number of his hitters into an early 0-1 count, they managed to reach base despite his effort to the contrary.
This game, and this ridiculous 2021 season, can kiss my ass.
