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Lou Pinella deserves all the credit in the world. He turned the Cubs around completely. They really deserve a championship.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Cubs went to the World Series.
Besides: Boston, the White Sox, all the curses are ending.

And looks like the Yanks have bumped Richie Sexon out of the lineup. Not a big deal/surprise. However, they sent Melky Cabrera down to AAA!!!????  He has been slumping, but that guy IS their center fielder.
But hey, when things are bad, make any change you can, and hopefully it'll send Melky, and others, the message: You gotta start hitting!

Mo just can't get it done in tie games, and I can't figure it out.  It's hard to blame Giambi for that.  If Justin Christian doesn't get picked off, the game is probably tied before Giambi come up. 

I just saw the news on Melky and Sexson.  No surprise with Sexson; the Yanks were running a four-man bench where one of the guys could only play first, and only against left-handed pitching, and that just wasn't gonna last very long.  Melky definitely needs something to bust up this bad year, but it seems to me that the guy who needs the attitude adjustment of being sent down to AAA is Cano.  Melky seems like a hard-working guy who happened hit a bad year, while Robbie seems like a very talented guy who is playing badly because he no longer has the drive and energy he had when he was a minor leaguer fighting to keep his roster spot in the bigs. 


Edited by rileydog22 - August 16 2008 at 00:22

Pick-up was a little ridiculous. I believe they would of doubled damon off anyway. Right to the short stop, bang-bang play.

What I didn't understand was Mo.... Did Girardi feel like flirting with a statistic that is completely assanine, but holds true every time?

rileydog22 wrote: Well, Leyland doesn't really have any options in his bullpen besides Jones and Rodney.  Zumaya is on the DL and Farnsworth is just plain bad.  And I seriously doubt the Tigers have a better shortstop than Renteria stashed away somewhere; the fact is, short is probably the thinnest position in the league right now (well, maybe catcher).  But I bet they've got somebody better than Sheffy somewhere.

Yea, the team is done. 10 games behind the AL East, behind 2 teams. Behind 3 teams in the wild card, and watching them play is just sad.
I was listening to ESPN radio and they said something I never thought of, or was in denial of.
Jeter could just be having an off year, and who knows with A-rod
but maybe in regards to Melky, Cano, Abreu etc  we just over estimated their skill?

Oh, and also try moving some people around. Why keep A-rod in that slot when he's just not performing the why he should? Put Nady in. Do something, dont be afraid to move people around.


Edited by JJLehto - August 16 2008 at 14:41

It's a tough one, have faith in your people now for next year? Or do some radical changes?
ie Going for Manny, CC
dumping a few people (I usually hear Abreu, Giambi)
Who knows...

I find it impossible to care about olympic baseball when I the best 1000 baseball players in the US (arguably the greatest 1000 baseball players in the world, the way MLB farms and imports players) are currently playing here rather than Beijing.  To win that must feel quite hollow; congratualtions, you're the best 25 men not good enough for the majors!  

Damon plays like a f**king child in centerfield.

Also, I laughed when I saw that the Yankees currently have CARL PAVANO penciled into the starter spot vacated by Kennedy.  I wonder if he'll actually play again...