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Phils look real if the pitching holds up, much like the Cubs. At this point, the NL west need not apply. Cubs and Phils don't meet til the end of August. By then the pretenders will be falling away (Cards, Marlins). Dodgers are better than their record and should be at or near first by then. Still have a ways to go if they hope to defeat the NL East/Central offensive onslaughts. Pittsburgh is also better than their record and should overtake the Brewers and possibly the Cardinals. Rumor mill has Junior going to Chicago.

Good series...Cubs/Braves at Wrigley Tues-Thurs.

I get pretty much all my offense from third base: Chippah Jones and A-Rod.  I have one of them DH when their both healthy (startlingly rare, this season). 

The Phillies are on fire!  And they've already won this series with Atlanta!  And the Marlins are collapsing (finally)!  And the Mets are still mediocre!  

JJLehto wrote: Damn, a back and forth game where the yanks were behind 3 times and came back to win it 12-11 Johnny Damon had SIX HITS And his 6th hit was the game winner, truly he had an amazing game

How did you post this at 12:30 when the game ended after 4 o'clock?!

This was QUITE a game, and I was fortunate enough to be in attendance.  After the fourth, a few friends of my brother left the game, and we took the tickets to their FIRST ROW SEATS BEHIND HOME PLATE.  It was truly incredible, probably one of the three or four best ballgames I've ever been to. 

I feel a little guilty, though, for yelling "I miss Scott Proctor!  Can we trade back?" at Wilson Betemit.  Seriously, though, bad call by Brian Cashman. 


Edited by rileydog22 - June 07 2008 at 21:57

I was in attendance at last night's Tigers game and again the fearsome Tigers' offense was toothless.  4 hits, 0 walks, 2 runs on both solo home runs.  They lost 4-2.  They have lost 4 in a row and are now 11 games under .500.  They will have to play almost .700 ball the remainder of the season to have a chance at making the playoffs.  The highlight of the game was rookie Jeff Larish hitting his 1st major league home run (while sporting a .095 batting average).  It landed about 7 rows in front of me.  If the guy hadn't caught the ball it was going to land in the aisle way and might just have bounced up to me.  The cool thing about catching a first home run is that the guy who hits the home run usually wants to keep the ball, so the person who catches it can exchange the ball for a chance to meet the player, and usually get some SWAG also. 

Two in a row for the Buccos!!  We're out of last place for the moment.

To Derek Jeter


Just making his 2,416th hit  Jeter has passed Micky Mantle for 3rd ALL TIME in hits, in Yankee History

I'm still not convinced that he's for real.  Bruce, Uggla, and McLouth are all due for collapses, IMO. 

Smoltz is having season ending surgery and could retire.

Too bad the Braves couldn't have gotten Maddux back into the fold. It would have been nice to see Glavine,Smoltz and Maddux back on the same team one last time.


Edited by crimhead - June 04 2008 at 18:20

Great night for Buccos fans, down 4-0 they get a Grand Slam and then one more to beat the Cards 5-4.

Two Grand Slams in the four game series.

Yes.