ThunderBolt

Come on, Rios!

BACON!!!

Jones would have had third if he didn't stop running on his way to second.

These are the kind of outings you need from your veteran starter against a crap team when your divsion rivals hot on your ass.

Awesome, Mark. Just awesome.

Pretty sure this makes Jayson Nix a full-time starter for them. So... that's kind of cool.

Damn, well we had a good run. On to the next one.

I'll just throw it out here. Don't think it's going to happen, but here it goes anyway: Homer Bailey. We've had interest in the past and Coop can fix 'em.

QUOTE (pktmotion @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) Don't you think that might stretch our rotation a bit thin? That would make one of Torres/Marquez/Sale?? as our 5th starter. Don't get me wrong I agree with you; if it's Hudson and Morel/Danks2 for Dunn that's a great deal for us. But i think that would have to be tied with another move for a starter: and who would we trade? and for whom? I'd rather KW take advantage of the Phillies/Oswalt situation and see what it would take to get Werth. Amaro wouldn't ask for Beckham and we could probably get away with not trading Hudson. The Dunn move demands another move for a pitcher. The good thing about that kind of a deal is that the one of Danks/Morel that you don't trade can be flipped for the arm in question.

I wouldn't even blink over trading Hudson and one of Danks or Morel for Dunn. That's a damn good deal for us.

For those of you who were wondering of Jerry Dipoto is an idiot... yeah, he's an idiot. This is his measuring stick of what a great pitcher is: “We achieved by maintaining major league quality with a 2008 All-Star in Joe Saunders and a guy who quite frankly has been one of the winners in Major League Baseball,” Dipoto said. “I think he trails only Roy Halladay(notes) among major leaguers in total wins. He’s won 63 percent of his games since coming to the major leagues… “ http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_leagu...?urn=mlb-258239

QUOTE (BearingPro @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 12:37 AM) KW always plays it close to the vest, keeping the lid on information that might hurt the process. I'm sure when a trade is announced it will be something surprising. I have complete faith in our GM. Welcome to the board!

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 11:47 PM) Stand pat and win the division if you can for a few extra dollars on next year's payroll. No one should get canned for being a realist. If we lose this division or win by a game or two, it's because our manager and general manager came into the season with a glaring weakness that wasn't adressed. Someone needs to take the fall for that. I'd prefer us all to have a lot higher expectations for this team then the first round of the playoffs. We had all the pieces coming into the offseason to take this division by the throat and we didn't take it.

Good. Teahen can help this ball club. I'd like to see him get all of Kotsay's at-bats but there's not a chance in hell that it happens.

Great effort from Danks tonight. Alexei Ramirez is looking spectacular.

And The Missle deflect the blame of a mismanaged Ozzie inning in a big way!

Q should be at third, Ozzie.

What the hell is going on here?

We are running ourselves out of an insane amount of innings. Ozzie Ball is killing us.

That was almost a double whammy of bad.

PAULIE!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 05:13 PM) That too. But it just confuses me how you can think the combination of Jones/Kotsay can somehow outproduce Thome. I'm all for second chances, but when the party who recieves that chance does nothing with it they should be dropped from the roster, when the experiment proves to be a failure.

I demand a groundout to 3b from Kotsay tonight. He needs to change it up a bit.

The best thing we could have done is either signed Thome or claimed Cust and stashed him in AAA after he was DFA'D. Now, we're in a sitiuation where we have to make a move.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:22 PM) I can't believe I've gone from practically worshiping Ozzie to despising him in like two years. I credit both this board and sabermetrics as helping to make me more of a student of the game. And frankly, the more i learn, the more i dislike Ozzie.