This Week In Baseball

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Good battle of young pitchers today, as Oliver Perez battles Roy Oswalt and the Houston Astros. Perez is having major control issues (16 BBs in 19 IP), and we'll see if he can get back on track. ESPN is carrying the New York/Atlanta matchup, Aaron Heilman versus Horacio Ramirez.

[Mik 0]

The announcer doing the Nationals/Phillies game on ESPN sounds like Jimmy Fallon trying to do his Pat O'Brien voice.

[sfaJack 0]

The Astros are a bad offensive baseball team. I knew there was no way they'd be as good as they were the last third of last season, but scoring zero runs for the third time in a week is pathetic.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

In all fairness, those shutouts have come against Hudson, Mulder and Perez.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Well, I guess we'll need another closer. Fox enters a seven-run game, walks three, gives up a homer and only records one out. And he left with an injury. I hate to sound mean, but this could be a blessing in disguise. Next?

[Bored 0]

I'd think about going on a hunger strike until the A's score another run but I might starve to death. I jumped the gun a little over a week ago thinking they couldn't get any worse. Wasting another good outing this time by 5th starter Barry Zito.

 

Update: Lose 6-0. Scoreless streak at 23 innings. Chavez just looks awful on offense and defense. So much for my MVP pick.

[NoCalMike 0]

I'd think about going on a hunger strike until the A's score another run but I might starve to death. I jumped the gun a little over a week ago thinking they couldn't get any worse. Wasting another good outing this time by 5th starter Barry Zito.

 

Update: Lose 6-0. Scoreless streak at 23 innings. Chavez just looks awful on offense and defense. So much for my MVP pick.

Yeah it sucks to know that our record wouldn't be any different right had we kept Mulder & Hudson. The pitching is not the problem. The offense is horrible, and the depressing part is that it is getting worse by the day....... Time to put plans on hold for my next outing to the Colliseum.

[alfdogg 0]

OK, somebody has to ask it:

 

Who's playing on the 31st?

[The Czech Republic 0]

Expos at Senators

[iggymcfly 0]

The stupid question of the day is at ESPN.com:

 

Which MLB surprise is most likely to make the playoffs:

 

Arizona Diamondbacks

Baltimore Orioles

Chicago White Sox

Los Angeles Dodgers

 

The Dodgers?! Are you kidding me? Did anyone out there actually pick someone other than the Dodgers to win the West? I swear that 90% of the world picked them to win the division, and while I don't remember the odds, I guarantee you that you wouldn't have gotten better than 1:1 on them at a casino.

[The Czech Republic 0]

The stupid question of the day is at ESPN.com:

 

Which MLB surprise is most likely to make the playoffs:

 

Arizona Diamondbacks

Baltimore Orioles

Chicago White Sox

Los Angeles Dodgers

 

The Dodgers?! Are you kidding me? Did anyone out there actually pick someone other than the Dodgers to win the West?

Um, how about every talking head on ESPN? "There's no chemistry! They can't repeat! They don't use productive outs! It'll be the Giants or Padres!"

[Hektik 0]

I read almost every article on the NL West during the offseason. The majority of them picked the Giants to win followed by the Padres. Most articles had the Dodgers finishing third.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

The sabermetric community went about 70/30 on the Dodgers, mostly going against them if they picked the Padres instead, who are also fairly good. The ESPN crew and others went against them because of the team chemestry b.s. and blind hatred of everything Moneyball related. That they are still on this poll is a joke. If you asked me before the season who I thought would win the West, and you told me you'd spot me five games on the Padres and Giants, it would be no contest.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

Mets vs Braves tonite... and fuck Michael Wilbon's fat ass on hating all over Pedro.

[iggymcfly 0]

Wow, I would have thought the chances of winning the division were something like 60%/25%/15% before the season with the Dodgers, Giants, and Padres.

 

After Barry got hurt, I would have revised that to about 75%/15%/10%, with the Giants moving down to third.

 

I'm honestly quite surprised that a large number of people would pick the Padres. The Dodgers looked at least as good as the team that won the division last year, and I thought that anyone outside of a healthy SF squad would be a huge reach.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Dodgers will win the West, but don't count those Padres out until the very end. They should give LA a run.

[strummer 0]

ESPN is going to love this, the Braves are killing Pedro, so much for that pitcher's dual

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I'm honestly quite surprised that a large number of people would pick the Padres. The Dodgers looked at least as good as the team that won the division last year, and I thought that anyone outside of a healthy SF squad would be a huge reach.

 

A large part of LA's success was the surprise season of Adrian Beltre, and whether or not they re-signed him, it was unlikely they would see that kind of production again in their lineup. Meanwhile, the Padres saw no major losses except for David Wells, and they replaced him with Woody Williams.

[strummer 0]

John Smoltz looks like he will finally get his first win of the season

[Mik 0]

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere else, so forgive me if it was, but Magglio Ordonez is out 2-3 months with a hernia.

 

Between that and Ozzie Guillen calling him every name in the book - it hasn't been a good week for Maggs.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Watching the Phillies/Nationals, I could swear half the crowd are Phillies fans.

[mike546 0]

watching Jason Giambi is down right pitiful.

 

His bat is so slow, and he Ks basically every other AB. Phillips is hitting well again tonight, Joe really needs to keep him starting, and DH Tino instead.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

They would be better off DHing Phillips and playing Tino in the field, but point taken.

[mike546 0]

Holy mother of god.

 

A-Rod just hit his 3rd HRer of the night, and has 9 RBIs.

 

wow.

[NYU 0]

ESPN is going to love this, the Braves are killing Pedro, so much for that pitcher's dual

Are you watching the Mets again?!

 

How dare you. Turn off the TV this very second.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Holy mother of god.

 

A-Rod just hit his 3rd HRer of the night, and has 9 RBIs.

 

wow.

And he'll have a shot or two at number four. It's a good day to have him on my fantasy squad.

[mike546 0]

David Wells is headed to the DL for about a month with a foot injury.

 

Welcome to hell, Sox fans.

[KingPK 0]

They've already reserved his special "rehab stool" at the Cask N' Flagon. How Wade Miller comes back will be even more important now, I think.

[nogoodnick 0]

Arod is Jesus.

[Guest Smues]

Fucking Kolb. 2 runs of a 3 run lead gone, Beltran is at 1st and Pizza is at 1st. Foster is coming in to try to cleanup his mess. Smoltz finally gets some run support (4 runs tonight, I think he got 3 runs in his first 4 starts total) and Kolb trys his best to blow it. Bah.