Congratulations to Hunter Strickland for reminding us that the 2014 playoffs were about him and his own failures and not about the Giants winning their third World Series in five seasons.
You thought it was about the playoff charge and Madison Bumgarner’s epic postseason and the parade? No, it was about Strickland, silly!
Strickland decided all this after apparently stewing about it for most of three years–that the next time he faced Harper he knew he couldn’t get him out, so Strickland had to throw at him.
Which happened yesterday.
It was all about Strickland, the most important and baddest man in the world (according to Strickland’s own actions, I would guess), except he can’t rely on himself to throw three strikes past somebody.