Week 9 MSSSMRMoW

A former roommate battle is week 9's
Mike Shaw Subaru Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week

Being roommates with someone forces an interesting relationship to develop.  On one hand, you have the comraderie that comes with living under the same roof, spending large amounts of time together doing mostly stupid and unproductive things like playing video games or drinking or playing video games while drinking (and we're talking about boys here, because, well...we are all boys.  No one understands what girls do in their free time anyways because most of them dont play video games).  On the other hand you have the feelings of animosity that creep up because you have to rely on someone else to do their share of the cleaning, to pick up after themselves and pay their share of the utilities and rent.  Since we are boys, if one of the roomates isnt doing their share, we generally dont say much, we just let it go until it boils over into some kind of shouting match, which turns into more video games and more beers and then all is forgiven.  Again, with these things and girls, it usually leads to one of them moving out or the refusal to acknowledge that the other exists, sometimes for months on end.

Quick tangent - I have had my share of spectacular roommate stories, from the time that I came home to a message on the answering maching (yes, we had land line phone service while I was in college...I am that old) with the caller identifing herself as from the US Government looking for my roommate because his dad had appearantly stolen his identity and was using it to rack up some pretty significant debt on credit cards in his name (no idea if it really was the government...when I asked him about it later he denied knowing anything about it and the message on the machine was gone) to the time that my roommates and I made 23 gallons of WOP in plastic tubs and I ended up cutting off a piece of my thumb and duck taping it back on and acting like nothing happened.  But the best roommate story I have is the one where the roomie I mentioned earlier had moved out and we were looking for a new one to sublease.  This seemingly normal guy called, came and saw the place, paid the rest of the lease (3 months) up front and promised to pay utilities.  About 2 weeks later (neither me nor my roommate Nick had really talked to this guy much in that 2 weeks), there is a knock on the door at like 11pm.  We had a side entrance which was never locked, and everyone who would be coming at 11pm knew this, so I went to the door with a baseball bat in hand, peaked out the window and saw 5 of Winona's Finest staring back at me.  I quickly tossed the bat aside and opened the door.  The cops informed me that the new roomie had called 911 and promptly hung up and that they needed to see him.  They spent the next 45 minutes trying to get him to open the his room door and when he did he was a complete pile.  They verified he was not dead, shut his door and got ready to leave only to get a call on the radio that he had outstanding warrants.  So...rinse lather repeat and 45 minutes later the door is open again.  They take him out and Nick and I just stared at each other for like 5 minutes saying "Did that really just happen?"  The next day, his parents show up at our house and take all his stuff, give us a bunch of money for the rest of the year utilities and profusely apologize.  That's the end right?  Nope...3 days later the kid shows up again, telling us he was out of town on "business"and accusing us of stealing all his stuff.  He lived in the house for 3 or 4 more days, sleeping on a couch that he dragged into his room from the living room and then left and never came back.  I have no idea if he found another place to live of if he got hit by a car or if he went back to jail.  But we did start finding half drank bottles of beer and half drank cups of whiskey in random cabinet in the kitchen and bathrrom as well as a giant rip in the screen in the window in his room that he had appearantly been using as a way to go in and out without us knowing for some reason.

I am sure that Kyler and Zach could tell similar stories about one another after having lived together for the past year.  That is why this is this week's Mike Shaw Subaru Super Mo Replay Matchup of the week despite it being a one sided ass kicking.

Team	R	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	W	K	ERA	WHIP	QS	SV+H	Score
Zach's Team	23	29	4	0.246	0.336	0.443	5	63	2.97	1.02	6	3	9
Backyard Superstars	23	25	2	0.282	0.333	0.441	4	43	4.28	1.34	3	6	2

When it boils down to it, there are really only 2 people who are responsible for the outcome of this matchup.  The first is Nelson Cruz.   Cruz finished the week 476/556/1190 with 5R 8RBI and 1SB.  If Edwin Encarnacion was Buffalo Bill this week, Cruz is Hannibal Lector.  Not even Cubano Apocolypse Yasiel Puig (333/429/583) could match Cruz this week.  Cruz's line was even able to offset the terrible Mike Zunino (087/192/217) and CarSTOP (125/263/313) to give Zach the win in OBP and SLG.  The gaping hole at catcher certainly didnt help Kyler, as a healthy Matt Weiters of Joey Votto likely is able to score 1 run and knock in a couple.  That would have dramatically change the outcome of the matchup. 

The other responsibile party in this matchup is Garelex Cobbiller.  Garelex Cobbiller made 3 starts this week (1 QS), struck out only 11, with an 8.82 ERA and 1.78 WHIP.  With Garelex Cobbiller, even Yu Darvish's excellence (12K 0.00 ERA, 0.88 WHIP) could not help BySs overtake Tim Hudson (2W 0.00 ERA 0.79 WHIP 11K), Anabel Sanchez (9K 1.08 ERA 0.48 WHIP) and Jeff Samardzija's first win of the season.  Samardzija's win was definitely the one that put Zach over the top.

There will be another matchup between these two teams, maybe even another 2 matchups, but with their lease having ended last week and them not living together for the upcoming year, it looks like Zach will forever have roomie bragging rights.  Too bad he cant leverage them into doing forcing Kyler to do some extra cleaning or something.