Frayed Knot

So what you're telling us is that those are Bingo's travelling All-Stars They should paint that on the side of their New Hampshire bound bus.

Our long day's journey into night is finally over. Smith for closer !!!

We'll visit Milwaukee Sept 1, 2 & 3 The way things are going, the WC will come out of the Central this year with Cubbies, Brews & Cards fighting out for two spots. All 3 of those clubs have better records right now than EVERY West or East team.

Neither one of those shots (Werth or Tatis) was a CBP cheapie.

SHOW US YOUR TATIS!!!!

Astros & Braves tied at 6 in the 16th (but without the rain delays) ARod ties Mantle at 536 HRs (but he's not a true Yanqui)

Well it's Smith and/or Armas for the rest of the game - and Armas pitched yesterday though I shudder to think of Smith pitching to LHBs Rollins, Utley & Howard

claims ESPN.com "The Brewers and the Cleveland Indians agreed to a deal for the reigning AL Cy Young on Sunday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The newspaper reports the deal is contingent on paperwork being finished and the exchange of medical records. Cleveland would get Double-A outfielder Matt LaPorta, who is hitting .288 with 20 homers and 66 RBIs in 84 games for Huntsville, and two other minor leaguers in return, according to the Journal Sentinel. The two other players do not include top prospects Alcides Escobar or Mat Gamel." Here's what BA recently had to say about LaPorta in their 'mid-season All-Star' prospects article: Team: Double-A Huntsville (Southern) - OF, Age: 23 At the time of the 2007 draft, LaPorta's selection at No. 7 overall may have seemed curious. What were the Brewers doing taking a first baseman�a college senior, no less�that high when they had Prince Fielder entrenched at the same position? LaPorta may not be smooth in the outfield, but he more than makes up for it with his bat. He leads all Double-A batters in home runs, and ranks fifth in slugging, fourth in RBIs and second in extra-base hits (44). With LaPorta, Gamel and Escobar, the Brewers have the type of position-player prospect depth to rival any organization. So who's laughing now? Team ----- AVG OBP SLG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB Huntsville .290 .403 .577 293 53 85 23 2 19 64 43 62 2 3 different Brewer prospects were listed as mid-season All-Stars, LaPorta plus the two they were apparently able to keep out of the deal.

With A Reyes's "power" and Schneider's "speed" could he even score him with two hits?

And now we've got the bottom of our lineup due up, the middle of theirs, and the best part of our pen is spent.

Mutha-Fucka

Might have gotten a break on that call. 2 down

And now Wright Ks and the gain from the sac bunt is out the window. But Beltran singles as I type and brings the run in!

Swing away! Pull the damn ball and see what happens. You might even get a hit by accident.

It would be real nice to get some more runs here Mets have had 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 & 1 baserunners in the first 8 innings and the only one that scored was the guy who knocked himself in. And now a baserunner to start the 9th.

Feliciano reverses his bad 1st-batter trend.

AL Vote-in choices: Jermain Dye - Chi Jose Guillen - KC Jason Giambi - NYY Evan Longoria - TB Brian Roberts - Bal

Wright's competition for the final spot is: Pat Burrell - Phi Carlos Lee - Hou Cory Hart - Milw Aaron Rowland - SF Reyes's problem is that all the good SS are in the NL this year. Ranking the 20 SSs who qualify with enough ABs by OPS, the NL guys are 1st (Ramirez), 2nd (Reyes), 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 19th (Khalil Greene) while the AL guys are 6th (Michal Young), 11th, 12th (Jeter), 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th & 20th

And they're rolling an 'Odd Couple' !!!!

One could make a dcent argument for either Wright or Reyes, but it's always a numbers game and it looks like Chrisitan Guzman, as the token Wash Nat, "took" Reyes's spot.

Wagner's in.

Zvon wrote: I thought Easley was gonna score on that for sure. Grrrr. Easley would have been meat at the plate if sent (IMHO of course)

THe NYPost claims to already know the starters despite the fact that TBS is supposed to have top secret rights to them at 2:00 this afternoon. IIRC, ESPN jumped the gun last year by leaking the names and denied MLB's new partner TBS of their moment in the sun.

Maine - 2.4 Heilman - 0.2 Sanchez - 0.5 Schneider - 2.0 Easley - 1.5 Reyes - 1.0 Tatis - 0.4 Wright - 0.4 Delgado - 1.0 Chavez - 0.3 Anderson - 0.3

Frayed Knot wrote: And the rout is on!! And the tarp is on!!