Whether they end up beating Tampa or not...they are fun to watch. They have discipline. They always seem loose, regardless of the situation -- and you just had to know when the cut that lead from 7 - 0 to 7 - 4 that they were probably going to win.
I loved the call "this would be a good time for Drew to show some of that Mickey Mantle power" and he jacks one out on that pitch to make it 7 - 6. How about that Chip Caray after all?
What was I saying about tough outs? Did you see this game? There are about 5 or 6 tough outs on EACH team.
Great comment during the broadcast that "Cliff Floyd has been a winner everywhere he's ever been." Oops. Except the Chicago national league ballclub.
Great quote in the SoCal paper yesterday. Actually two. Both Manny.
1. This is just like it was in Cleveland. The fans love me. Now we have to see if management loves me, too.
2. (and this one instantly becomes my all time favorite) -- He says "I'm a five tool player. I can hit. I play left field. I can steal a few bases. And I can hit." Classic.
The only people less happy than Tampa fans (that sounds odd. Do they actually HAVE fans?) are Yankee fans.
Best move of the night? Using Papelbon early to stem the tide. Gives up a double to Upton...two runs charged to Del Carmen...and then...NOTHING. Letting his team come back.
Cub baseball. I have been giving it a great deal of thought. We need to trade Lee and get Teixiera. Period. If we only make one major change this offseason, that's the one. Re-sign Hendry. Re-sign Dempster and Wood. The rest of the team, while not perfect...is good enough.
Unless someone thinks that Hoffpauir can play outfield everyday...trade him to an American League team or someone who needs a firstbaseman. Get something for him. His stock will never be higher than it is right now.
Separated at birth: Joe Maddon and Eric Burden.
more later. or not.
best to cb
Sherm
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I'd take the Texiera for Lee swap in a minute. Great AB's last night from Drew and Coco Crips. How about Gross's Jacques Jones throw to the plate. A ball hit that hard and fielded shallow should have gotten there on a line on the fly...Gross threw it into the infield dirt like Juan Pierre.
Replay showed that he slipped when making the throw -- so I had to cut him some slack. FYI -- Smitty kind of throws like that, too.
Once again, it all boils down to tough at bats.
SO do we root for the Red Sox, just so that another town can have the wonderful feeling of being eviscerated with out anesthesia?
We had the former Ray Gm scouting for the Phillies filling up dead air in the middle of a foregone game. Lots of discussion about the World Series with the lowest ever market draw, and then Rupert Murdoch makes a call and the fat lady has to stay shut up.
Anaheim (I can't buy into the name crap)... that's the D Lee destination, if there is to be one.
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