That is a TERRIBLE pun.
Did you guys see game 5 of the NLCS? Here's the setup: it's the top of the ninth, and the Houston Astros are up 4-2 on the St. Louis Cardinals and sitting three outs away from a 4-1 series victory and the first World Series appearance in the history of the franchise. Their all-star closer Brad Lidge comes in and mows down the first two batters. He gets 2 strikes on David Eckstein, and he dinks a single into left field. No biggie. Next up is Jim Edmonds, who works a walk. This is where the collars get tight.
Albert Pujols comes to bat as the go-ahead run. Lidge gets 2 strikes on "Phat Albert" and the crowd is going NUTS. These people are excited, the Astros are practically running out of the dugout already, the plastic is up in the locker room and the bottles of champaign are ready to be wasted. Then it happens... Pujols absolutely DESTROYS a ball to deep left field, and the Redbirds take the lead. The crowd shifts from party time to dead silence in an instant.
Later, Fox would run through endless replays of reactions around the park and we would see the disbelief on Lidge's face in full closeup, Andy Pettitte in the dugout mouthing "Oh... My... God...", and Pujols making the most defiant walk out of the batters box that I have ever seen. Not "pimping" as the increasingly unsportsmanlike trots down the first-base line have come to be known in some circles, but just focused and proud and excited and composed and ready to get back to St. Louis and finish business all at once. It was one of the greatest sporting moments that I have ever seen. I was speechless.
Now if only Alex Rodriguez could have done that...
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