Marcus Hayes once wrote that Chase Utley got a pass in Philly – a luxury not afforded to Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard –  because he’s white. And as you might have guessed, Hayes is firmly anti-Utley after Chase’s devastating, series-changing slide against the Mets on Saturday.

Marcus?

That’s so Marcus.

On a somewhat related note, Hayes wrote words about the Eagles today:

https://twitter.com/damienromaine/status/653557105258045440

Hayes’ lede:


“GOOD TEAMS beat bad teams.”

You hear that adage all the time, in all sports.

Often, optimists subjectively consider all wins equal.

Usually, cynics consider wins over inferior opponents somehow less valid than wins over more solid competition.

Another name for those cynics:

Realists.

No argument that the Eagles’ win over a bad Saints team isn’t reason for celebration. But predictably, Hayes got in his digs at Chip Kelly:

Coach and dictator Chip Kelly, saddled with a balky kicker and desperate after a 1-3 start, ignored stats, logic and simple math and went for it on fourth-and-long near the Saints’ 40 . . . again, twice. Early. In a very close game.

With Riley Cooper as Sam Bradford’s target.

Was this the NFL or Sport and Social Club flag football?

It was hard to tell the difference.

Kelly’s mad-scientist calls shocked his most veteran starter; at least, temporarily.

…

Eagles receivers continued to drop passes and Bradford continued to throw just a hair late. Lead-footed DeMarco Murray continued to miss holes. Kelly, unhinged, accosted an official and earned an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty – on a defensive play that gave the Eagles the ball.

The next time a black player goes off on an official, I’ll look forward to Hayes, whose criticisms often fall across racial lines, saying he became “unhinged.” And even then, I’d expect him to know what the fuck he’s talking about. Chip was, very obviously, still upset from the missed call on the obvious pass interference on Darren Sproles a few plays earlier. It just so happened that by the time he got the flag, the Saints, as they were wont to do yesterday, had already turned the ball back over. But that’s just an important detail that would get in the way of Hayes making Chip seem like a deranged monster.

The Writers Guild is the best thing that has ever happened to Hayes.