Did God send that grounder to punish Daniel Murphy?
The Mets second baseman's error is no one’s favorite moment of the World Series. Well, almost no one's.
I’m a Cub fan but also a National League fan, so I was disappointed to see the Mets lose the World Series this week. And when an error on a routine play contributes to the outcome, that’s just rough—not the best way to lose or, for that matter, to win. Seeing the ball go under Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy’s glove is going to be no one’s favorite moment of the series.
Well, almost no one. Mark Joseph Stern kind of loved it. That’s because this spring, Murphy said some things to a reporter that, according to Stern, establish him as “perhaps the most explicitly and unabashedly anti-gay figure in major league sports today.” So Stern is “thrilled that…Murphy played a crucial role in bringing his team to an embarrassing defeat.“
In case you’re not a baseball fan or otherwise missed this, here’s what happened back when Murphy “unloaded,” as Stern puts it, his thoughts on the subject:
