OOT: West Coast Bias

[Ceetar]

Let's talk about all those other baseball games being played, while no one's talking about all the East Coast teams.

[Frayed Knot]

Rangers/Angels is really the only interesting series going on this weekend.
LAA had won six straight to cut the Texas lead down to 2 games but the Rangers drew first blood last night and it's back to 3.0

In every other match-up it seems like a contending team is facing on that's below .500

[Frayed Knot]

- Philly's attempt to get in one of their two games with Florida goes down the drain before it even starts.

- They're getting the game in in Boston (Sox lead Oakland 8-2 in the 5th) and will try to play tomorrow's game at 5:00. Even for a potential hurricane they wouldn't concede to a single-admission DH.

[TransMonk]

Varlander going for 20 wins before the calendar turns to September is pretty fuckin' cool.

[Gwreck]

And I would be watching that if fucking Fox didn't pre-empt the game for the same repetitive storm "coverage" I could get on 18 other channels. Fuck them.

[Gwreck]

Fox Sports en Espanol:
125 - Time Warner
196 - Cablevision

[Frayed Knot]

They haven't yet finished the first game in Boston (rain delay in the 7th) so I don't think they're getting the 2nd one in.
So it turns out not to have mattered whether they tried a single or double admission DH - but just the fact that they were so intent on not losing one game's gate when everyone knew the weather was going to get worse with each minute shows what a bad decision it was.

[bmfc1]

Reds beat the Nationals--the Mets are back in 3d. Thayer with his 19th save for Buffalo--I know he didn't show much in his short time with the Mets but could he be any worse than Igarashi?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yes, but there's a better than even chance that he wouldn't be.

I want him. Bring him to me.

They have a few days to chew on it, I think. Do we get credit for the sweep if Atlanta leaves town without playing another game?

[Frayed Knot]

Tying up a few loose ends from our NYM-less baseball weekend:

- The Sox & A's DID get their DH in on Saturday at Fenway - only took them 11 hours as there were rain delays in each. Not totally sure how they handled the tickets because I don't think they had enough time to empty the stadium between games, but the nice thing is the Sox swept the DH and are now 2 games ahead of the Yanx.

- The Yanx still haven't agreed to play the makeup from this weekend next Thursday. They're already several games behind most other teams (2 fewer than the Sox) and this would ruin one of their only 2 off-days between now and the end. What they want is to not play it at all unless necessary (and it almost certainly won't be necessary) but one thing the Selig era has been good about is playing just about every regular season tilt possible and seeing as how this does NOT break the 'no 20 games in a row' rule I don't think the MFYs can force their way out of it. They can, however, whine about it a lot.

- Tampa has won 3 straight and 9 of 12 to get themselves to "only" 6.5 behind the Yanx. Be nice to see them chop a bit more off both to avoid a dud AL East "race" and because the two teams have six games left all in the final nine days of the reg season. Be cool if those games turned into a 'win or go home' week.

- Angels wound up losing 2 of 3 to Texas over the weekend (dropping them to 3 games behind) but seemed pretty desperate about trying to win them as they pitched both Ervin Santana & Jered Weaver on short rest in order to have them face the Rangers. Didn't work though as those were the two games they lost.

- Nationals lost on a game-tying PH HR in the 9th (Yonder Alonso) then a walk-off HR in the 14th (Votto) yesterday in Cincy for their 6th loss in a row. So we snuck back into 3rd place while we were sleeping.