When dealing with made-up words, it's good to have an idea of what you intend them to mean. The thing is, with "Ubaldology", I'm not sure what to do with it. Is it a play on apology, eulogy, or the study of something? That something, of course, would be one Ubaldo Jimenez.
Let's just start with the oft criticized Indians pitcher himself, looking at who he is and, perhaps more importantly, who he is not. First off, he was not a summer rental. At the time, it was quite apparent that the Indians agreed to a price-tag that came with some expectations of reliability over multiple seasons, as club-friendly as Jimenez's deal with the Rockies may have been. Forget that we now know there's probably not much in the way of special when it comes to Drew Pomeranz or Alex White, on the morning of July 30, 2001, that was a big chunk of the future of the rotation. Little did we know.
The momentum of Rally Chicken has worn off. The Indians are two back of the AL Wild Card and thanks to a huge weekend from the upcoming Kansas City Royals, actually 5.5 back of the Tigers in the AL Central. Now they'll just need their own momentum swing to get them through the rest of this month.
There was a chicken, a 4-0 lead, the return of a super utility player, and some YANIMAL running around like a chicken with his head cut....errr, probably shouldn't make that joke.
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