Only a few hours before backing the Cubs into a corner with a postseason performance just about unrecognizable to anyone around here, Yu Darvish sent a nice note to our Evan Grant. And if that's not the kind of irony my journalism professors always craved in a lead, I haven't learned anything since.
Anyway, as Darvish explained in a long text, it wasn't really the Rangers' fault that he looks something like a playoff ace only now, as a Dodger.
Part of Darvish's motivation was a stand-up defense of Doug Brocail and the since-departed Brad Holman, his pitching coaches in Texas.