ABC 7
Starlin Castro tied a career-high with 7 RBIs, homering twice (two-run shot in the fifth, three-run shot an inning later) in an 8-3 Cubs' victory, but a more important moment occurred in the top of the ninth.
Now, Len Kasper & Jim Deshaies aren't the most popular announcing team in baseball (my father, a lifelong Cubs fan, has often hoped lightning would strike the broadcast booth, perhaps a bit "extreme", but you get the point). Deshaies uses phrases like "beak high" and "squirrely hop", and Kasper just isn't a very good play-by-play man. In the ninth, Cubs were an out away, crowd was on its feet & it was loud at Wrigley. The cameras got a quick shot of this young man
Kasper: "Sums it up right there, that shot."
Pardon me, Len? WHAT sums up WHAT?
We have a kid with a sticker on his forehead eating frozen lemonade. I personally think this particular photo sums up a summer day for a 10-year old kid who may have watched a couple innings of a Cubs game, but otherwise ate frozen lemonade and put stickers on his forehead.
I think what Len Kasper really meant was Len Kasper commenting the way he did about this photo sums up listening to Len Kasper for 3 1/2 hours.
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