{"id":805786,"date":"2018-04-12T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=805786"},"modified":"2018-04-12T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:00:38","slug":"i-reversed-the-reverse-travis-darnaud-torn-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/i-reversed-the-reverse-travis-darnaud-torn-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"I Reversed The Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"
During the second game of the season, I made a remark in the stands to the effect of “here comes the pitch that Travis d’Arnaud will flail at wildly before he sulks back to the dugout.” Like Roy McAvoy’s seven iron. it was the most comfortable club in my bag … ragging on Travis d’Arnaud. It works for me, and it never disappoints me. It never disappoints me because either I’m right, or I’m wrong which is good for the Mets because it means d’Arnaud is producing and shoving it down my throat.<\/p>\n
In this case, it was the latter, as d’Arnaud hit his first and so far only home run of the season. So then I got greedy. Every time d’Arnaud came up to the plate subsequently, I’d rag on him. Sometimes under my breath, sometimes out loud. But this time it was in the hopes of that reverse jinx holding strong: d’Arnaud getting a big hit every time I rag on him. It was going to be my new superstition. Except that the baseball gods … insightful simps that they are … decided to red-card me for “forced meanness for the purposes of self-gain”. They decided that only they can create ironic outcomes, and not me. So they partially tore d’Arnaud’s UCL<\/a> and put him on the shelf for anywhere from ten days to the entire season.<\/p>\n