I would LOVE to get Harden...but having Hendry trying to work a deal with Billy Beane scares me. A's get: everything. Cubs get: money saved from shutting down the AAA and AA ballclubs for a year. And Harden.
It's a terrible series but this team needs to buck up and put it behind them. We're 3.5 games up, and in all honesty we're REALLY 5.5 games up because the Cards are probably not going to be there anyway. We just need to forget this and win the Sox series. Everything will be just ducky by Sunday if we beat them 2/3.
That sounds like just a miserable way to be a fan. I don't know that it's appreciably worse than really believing they'll actually win only to be proven wrong year after year after year. But I digress. Definitely hoping for the best with Z. Need a lift right now after the disaster that was Tampa.
Heh. Welp, I didn't figure this would happen. Thought maybe there would be a tussle to hold the lead in the 8th, maybe a nail-biter 9th. Not a collapse like this.
I wonder how many hitters former reliever Eric Plunk, erm, plunked in his career. Or how many Homers Homer Baily serves up in his career. That's a case where it's a great name for a power hitter, but really bad for a pitcher.
I'm really starting to like Gally at the back end of our rotation. Give me a Rich Hill return-to-form and I'm feeling alright with our rotation provided Z comes back after a couple starts. It's really not that shaky. Demp has been a solid starter before, it's time to stop acting like this came out of nowhere. Hill was projected to be a decent mid-rotation guy for quite awhile. Gally has shown he belongs. Lilly should recover a bit since he's been pitching beneath himself for much of the year.