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[clyde]

Thank goodness we don't need a closer.
















Oh.






















We do.



























My bad.

[clyde]

The Tribe is really making this division race really interesting, extending the Tigers lead to 4 games tonight by bunny quick snatching defeat from the scary jaws of victory .



Oh Mr. LaPorta-ski....it is not very wise to be arguing a call at first while the winning run on third tip toes his way to home plate.

At least they lose in a different way each game.

Interesting stuff.

[horseofcourse]

fukodome should bat leadoff. I've seen you talk about him. His OBP is over .370 the last 3 years running. It's his only skill. Why he bats 6th is a mystery. Not a great player by any means, but since you got him, at least utilize his only skill which is getting on base. Batting him 6th in front of 3 bad hitters is pretty much meaningless. He gets on base more frequently than anyone on the team except the DH. I'd actually want someone on base when Cabrera and Hafner bat, not when LaPorta and other bad players bat. A .370 OBP for 3 consecutive years is a pretty nice skill which is not prevalent on the team. use it.

I'm not gonna crucify Ubaldo until sometime during next season, which is when we'll know more about White and the progression of Pomeranz. Season's over so it really doesn't matter. I'll wait til next year though. (rockies have him cheap through 2013 or 2014 which makes me wonder why they traded him....this is the type of trade Shapiro was good at and this Antonnetti tried to do the reverse trade. Probably won't work, have to think one of the two pitchers we traded will end up really good, oh well. I am just going to hope Ubaldo does well despite his regression to his 2008 form. He wears the Cleveland laundary so I'll hope for the best.)

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

Thank goodness we don't need a closer.
















Oh.






















We do.



























My bad.

For me this has been the biggest disappointment of the season. guy has not pitched well at all. Of our 5 "good" relief pitchers, he's been the worst. He's the bullpen's version of Exhausto. 2 outs, nobody on, 2 run lead in 9th, you really need to win those games in my opinion!!

[horseofcourse]

see my previous page post on fuk....needs to bat leadoff no?? Fuk OBP of .370, Brantley .330?? Brantley has more power, shouldn't he bat 6th and Fuk 1st??

[horseofcourse]

ON the bright side, just how bad are the Brownies going to be this year?? I guesss we have to start as it appears the Tribe is simply cliff diving for serious now.

[horseofcourse]

Our pitching is too good overall for a season ending long losing streak, but it's not good enough to not lose 6 of 10 with regularity which makes this slow, steady decline ever so painful. (it's exactly that as we're 24-40 in our last 64 games which is a large sample size of pretty bad baseball....a long stretch of losing 6 of every 10 pretty much.)

[clyde]

I don't know how a .260 hitter can get on base a lot without walking a lot...and from his evidence of complete lack of power, why would he walk a lot??

We got what we should have thought we got in U-Boob-O.

The 2 pitchers we gave up for no apparent reason will become the next NL C.Young winners.....of course.

I would like to say,''Thank God we can now pay attention to the Browns."....but I do for a few minutes and then I say, "Well...there's still plenty of baseball left."


Then there's the Cavaliers......but there's still plenty of baseball left.





Maybe Ohio State can be something to look ahead for with a happy face.

As you can tell, my life sucks.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

I don't know how a .260 hitter can get on base a lot without walking a lot...and from his evidence of complete lack of power, why would he walk a lot??

he just does. the guy walks a lot. good vision? He is an upgrade believe it or not, which is pretty sad statement on the team's offense no question and what we were putting in the outfield. (urns started the last two days with Brantley banged up!!) This is pretty much arguing which method of capital punishment you prefer. It matters zero in the end.