As the professional sports teams raise the cost of attending a game and the players are paid astronomical sums for what is not exactly rocket science the least we should be able to expect is accountability.

During today’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs outfielder and highest paid team member Alphonso Soriano dropped a routine fly ball to left field wit two outs in the ninth allowing the tying run to score from first base and costing his team a win when Jason Bay singled home the winning run in the 11th.

Soriano’s commentary?

There wasn’t anything he could do differently, Soriano said.

I don’t know Fonz, maybe you could have tried catching the ball. That would be different. Two run homers matter not when your team loses a game they had in hand. Soriano is the one of the most overpaid and overrated players in the history of baseball and most certainly in the long and sordid history of the Cubs. While he can be an electric hitter who tears off 10 home runs in a week when he is hot, he also can cost the team games with a lack of clutch hitting and shoddy defense. If you want to collect the big money you need to be a complete player, something Soriano cannot even begin to claim. The Cubs have not won a World Series in 100 years and this is one of the reasons. Games are won with pitching and defense, not leadoff homers in a 13-2 game. And they wonder why the fans boo. If you screw up Fonzie, the least you could do is admit it.