After a rare 5 day weekend (Thursday-Monday. Seriously, don’t have a job. It’s great) it was nice to get back to really watching good baseball last night. Tons of good series, including Brewers-Cubs, Red Sox-Angels and Mets-Marlins on tap. But, of course, only one series can lead off Quality Start when I’m at the helm…
Twins 7, White Sox 0: Denard Span hit his first career major league homer, and has filled in admirably in center field for Carlos Gomez. Justin Morneau (Canadian!) also hit a 2 run homer, and Kevin Slowey threw a 6 hit shutout. The White Sox’ lead in the AL Central is down to 1.5 games
Marlins 7, Mets 3: Fernando Tatis continued to delve into the world of anabolic steroids, as he went 2-4 with a triple (!), but it was not enough, as the bullpen couldn’t hold on for the Mets after John Maine left mysteriously in the 5th inning. Robert Andino hit a pinch hit 2 run double, and looking at the boxscore I’d say the Marlins used everyone from their 25 man roster.
Angels 7, Red Sox 5: Manny Ramirez hit his 20th homer of the season off K-Rod in the 9th, but Rodriguez still notched his 44th save of the year. I hate whoever has him in my fantasy league. Will the Red Sox trade Manny? Well, one thing is for sure, that might be the only topic covered more than Brett Favre, since he plays for the Red Sox. Future 2008 AL MVP JD Drew (for serious) went 2-3 with a walk.
Indians 5, Tigers 0: Grady Sizemore went 2-3 with a steal, but the real story was Paul Byrd, who turned back the clock, throwing 7.2 shutout innings. Kelly Shoppach somehow hit a homerun, which was only equaled in surprise by Asdrubal Cabrera’s round tripper. The Indians’ win knocks the Tigers back even farther in the AL Central. Thanks fellas.
Blue Jays 3, Rays 1: Proving once again that Canada is superior to Florida, the Blue Jays defeated the bandwagoners. Matt Stairs (Canadian!) hit his 11th homer of the season, and AJ Burnett threw 7 innings, giving up 1 unearned run, to improve his record to 12-9. In other news, the Blue Jays announced AJ Burnett will be staying put.
Cubs 6, Brewers 4: The Cubs and Brewers traded rallies throughout the game, but Chad Gaudin got yet another win for the Cubs. More importantly, CC Sabathia finally had an off day as he threw just 6.2 innings, giving up 3 runs. Alfonso Soriano went 2-4 with a double and a bomb.
Why would Tatis need steroids when Tatis has Jesus?
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080728&content_id=3213361&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym
manny is a bum, trade him.
They can’t afford to trade him now. They’ll lose too much offense.
Sparty, you sleep off that ass-raping by the O’s last night?
ill, the yanks always seem to slip up against the mediocre, sub-.500 teams
ill-i am trying to get over the kwame trade
i don’t see there being any way they trade Manny. There is no one available who would give them the production Manny does.
Clown, great teams don’t play to the level of their competition.
You may be right, ill, but consider this: what if they do?
/I’ll hang up and listen
stigs- i know. i just cannot believe how even fans were turning on him.
RWH-you reading about Kenny Phillips?
I don’t think there are many teams that would want to have to try to deal with manny. Francona seems to have this don’t give a fuck attitude towards him, and it seems to work along most lines.
sparty..whats up with Kenny Phillps?
arkbadger…you are up on the site at 11
fetch…any Tigers loss is a good loss. our pleasure.
are we having a getting to know Cardinals today?
clown – they underachieve if they have a $200 million payroll and overachieve if they have a substantially cheaper payroll.
stigs…possibly
Sparty…just read the Post…I love it…Phillips is going to be a monster
That was a great Brewer/Cubs game last night. I was pretty shocked to hear that they didn’t even sell out. Is everyone in Wisconsin at the Dells? This is one of the best Brewer teams in a very long time and they still can’t fill up their stadium.
pki..after stigs glowing review of the Dells…I am sure everyone made their way to spend a few bucks and pitch in…and hopefully get turned down by a few Wisconsin 10’s
PKI, the game was sold out.
PKI, capacity is 41,800. Attendance last night was 45,311. They was standing room only and a few single seats available for the game. TBL is putting the falsities in peoples heads for some reason. Take his baseball information with a grain of salt. If you watched the game, you would know it was sold out.
Re: single seats. only losers go to ballgames by themselves (i’m looking at you Roman).
/stretching for any relevant insult at this point
stigs…but I know the people in my section…they are my stadium friends
/compensating because I know I have no friends
@Stigs. Great write-up on the Dells yesterday by the way. I was actually working so I didn’t have a chance to comment on it yesterday. I spent many a summer day there way back when. My brother actually met his wife working at Family Land during the summer.
Stigs – I can only go watch Wieters by myself. That’s my alone time.
Then what the fuck were they talking about last night at the game? I apologize people. I got my facts wrong.
Family Land had some cool shit. I think they demo’d Family Land and it’s part of Mt. Olympus now. Did you ever go to Paul Bunyan’s?
I think I was flipping around the games too much last night and must have gotten which game I was watching mixed up with the brewers/cubs game. If I had a jew star, it would be gone by now.
Ill, you wouldn’t have any friends left if they came with you to see Matt Wieters.
its all good PKI.
What broadcast were you watching, pki? Kasper and Brenley both said the game was sold out.
Did anyone else happen to see Zambrano and Fontenot before the game? They have some sort of pregame hand shake ritual that doesn’t involve any hand shakes. It’s pretty funny.
well, I heard Dolphin Stadium had a capacity of 1700 people so the Marlins sold out…
I think I was watching the Brewer’s feed. That is what I love about my satellite. In the past, I might have had to watch last night’s game with Hawk and stupid fuck, but instead, I got to watch it with Dick and Bert.
/Insert Sesame Street joke here
oh eat shit roman!.. did you see all the transplanted douchebags.. i mean new yorkers leaving the game early after the immortal robert andino bent you over his bent knee and made you humble?
yeah, I think I heard the same about Family Land. Is Paul Bunyan’s the place where you sit on those long as tables and they just keep slopping food in front of you until you burst? Yeah, I’ve been there.
I can attest that Roman has friends in his section and helps to entertain at least two families that do not drink alcoholic beverages in said section.
I like stadium friends. They’re like internet friends except you have to make eye contact some times.