In a rage of sound and fury…

I’m furious at something. Just not sure where to direct all my fury.

I really hate the Cardinals. They are the devil — the baseball antichrist. They need more street justice enacted upon them than the apparently non-existent baseball Gods will allow.

I also don’t care much for the Giants. Actually, I hate the Cardinals more; have since last year. The Cardinals have been a bigger road block to Dodgers success.

Mike Matheny doesn’t make me happy. His move to stall in the middle of a Juan Uribe at-bat was lauded by some baseball people I respect, but I thought it was clown shoes. I would wish bad karma on him, but he leads the devil magic Cards, so I can’t really wish on him something he’s in charge of…

I hate the bar I went to to watch the Dodgers game last night. It’s near Laguna Lake in SLO and, while there were other Dodger fans there to help drown my sorrows, there were also Giants fans, clapping and cheering. First off, the Giants would MUCH rather play the Dodgers than a hot Cards team, should they make it to the next round. Also, I would love to see a Dodgers-Giants head-to-head NLCS. How much fun would that be?!

Instead, the Giants fan, who works at the bar (but I guess was off-duty throughout the game?) was rooting against the Dodgers. His blind hatred of the Dodgers in this case also had him rooting against baseball. And America.

“Are you a Cardinals fan?” I asked him and his lady-friend, both of them sitting there with their Giants hats on.

After a muttered reply and some banter with another Dodgers fan, he asked “where have you been all year?,” as if to imply that real Dodger fans should have been there all season.

But what would we have been watching Laguna guy? The Dodgers weren’t available on television this year. Not at my house. Not at your restaurant. Not anywhere in SLO County. (That reminds me, I hate Time Warner and pretty much every cable company. I didn’t get to watch the Dodgers this year, and it’s everyone’s fault.)

Your overpriced food is notorious for making its eaters poop like a goose and your staff feigns interest in providing any service. You’re a local place and I like that, but when the new wing place comes in, it’ll be hard for you and your place to stay in business if you continue to have employees heckle customers in their off time. I’m going to try to avoid that place from now on. Bad ju-ju.

Now, just minutes before the Dodgers start their game, I also hate that Yasiel Puig is sitting. Donnie, what are you doing? Puig was responsible for the only run the Dodgers scored last night. Puig was probably the offensive MVP for the Dodgers this year, and we’re benching him after two and a half bad games.

With one game to go, my fury is at an all-time high. It can all be calmed with a victory tonight, though.

People have been posting their stress levels on Twitter lately. I recommend you search it or click here to check it out. Should be a fun time following that throughout the game. Should the Cards score first, I’ll quickly be at Stress Level Trojan:

For what it’s worth, I’ve muttered about how I can’t handle this crap all series long. I have too much stress in my life. As Mike Petriello put it in his post at Dodgers Digest today:

“Thanks, baseball. You suck.”

Happy Game 4 everyone!