Jehrico

Dodgers suck...Houston's last pitcher couldn't throw a strike, he gave up three walks in the last inning, and they still couldn't score.

damned...assblows win....

Didn't Wilson have a stretch of like 22 ABs with 17 Ks or something like that coming into this series?

double for Berkman (I just had to say him and Ensberg were 0-10)...runners at 2nd and 3rd.

Berkman and Ensberg so far a combined 0-10 and the MLBTV feed's finally back up...

this game's gone so long, the cut off the MLBTV feed! I want a refund!

I wouldn't have PH with Perez...I would have found someone shorter with a smaller strikezone, try to take the walk.

new assblow pitcher having problems throwing strikes...

Ezequiel Astacio coming in to pitch...

Who do they have left in the pen? I'm not sure, but they've used one less position player than LA, so they must have a 12 man pen. We'll find out who the last guy is in a minute...

Oswalt warming up to PH for Borkowski...

I hope one of our flame throwers beans him when they come to town in September. They kick off the next Dodgers series on my birthday, 12 sep. I'd consider a good beaning a good bday present. I'm glad Colletti played the part of idiot and paid WAY more than he's worth so he wouldn't come here. From our perspective, that just might have been the best (non)move of the offseason.

I love seeing games like this for teams like Houston and St L. Burn up the bullpen so you have no one available with any amount of rest tomorrow. If they lose, it's about as demoralizing as it gets.

Ha! two on, two out, and the Stros can't afford to pinch hit for their pitcher in the bottom of the 11th. The result? Out #3.

how many relievers do the 'stros have in their pen? Borkowski is their 7th pitcher of the night.

I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with taking video AT a game and posting it on YouTube, as opposed to TV footage which would be illegal. I may be wrong on this, though. I would think you are. I bet there is something on the back of the ticket that says you can't take video there and also warns of foul balls and flying bats from former Cub shortstops. And current catchers...

Is he just now coming back from that smackdown that da Farns put on him? :D

I agree. One superstar player is not a substitute for a quality team of players. Felix is good, but we would be mortgaging the teams future. To further put in perspective, we'd be giving up a pretty good reliever, plus the #1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 prospects in our system(BA rankings). I definately don't think you should trade 5 of your best young prospects for a player that is only going to take the field once out of every five days. I could maybe see doing it with a position player like Pujols, MAYBE. But that had better be one hell of a player. Also you have to consider the injury risk. If your one star player gets injured, you're screwed. Whereas if you keep those five prospect and one gets injured, you still have the other four. In baseball, one player doesn't win you a championship. The same goes for football. However, if this was basketball, then it might be worth it since one player can completely change a franchise (re: Michael Jordan). I bet the odds are fairly good that one of those five players will make multiple All Star games in his career and another could make one or two. Throw in an average everyday player, and have the other two washout, and that is still three players that make contributions to your team. So like I said, I would maybe do it for a position player but I would never make that trade for any pitcher. Unless he's going to make 70-80 starts in a year and throw 450 innings. Then I would consider it. But I highly doubt we'll ever see another pitcher like that. I see that as the best case scenerio, not a given. I also see Felix Hernandez making multiple all star games as a given. Still not worth it. Look at what the Herschel Walker trade did to those teams. If that isn't a clear example of why you shouldn't leverage the future of your franchise against one player, then I don't know. And in that situation, it's not like Walker stunk or was hurt and washed out of the league right after the trade. Even if Felix's best case scenario turns out, it still likely won't be a great move. Thus far, Felix is off to a slow start, allowing 4 hrs in 21 innings, a WHIP of 1.33, ERA around 4.5 while going 0-3. The kid is probably going to be a stud, but given his success in 12 starts last year, alot of people had him penciled in as running away with the AL Cy Young. My point is, young phenoms are too unpredictable, and to gut your farm on one is taking a serious, serious, foolish gamble with the future of your franchise. The best case scenario in a trade like that is you give up what becomes a few good players for a stud, the worst case scenario is you bankrolled the future of your franchise on what could become a flameout/injury washout. The trade in the original post would be an extremely foolish one to make, IMO.

Excellent. Let's see what he can do. The only other rookie I've been as excited about seeing his major league debut is Prior. I'm taking Wednesday off from work to catch the game!

Isn't his OBP is back around .350 or .360 after tonights 1 for 2 with 2 bbs?

That's a strategy that some managers/coaches try to employ. You always hear of basketball coaches purposefully saying the right things to referees to get themselves tossed in hopes of firing up their team. They usually figure that the team can't play any worse so why not get tossed. Same thing in baseball. Either to fire up your team or make the umps thing about certain calls. Definately an interesting strategy though. I've got 72 people directly underneath me. I wish I could say something to my boss, get sent home for the day, and have my 72 people get fired up and increase productivity.

Anyone hear if they announced who was going to start Wednesday? I thought they were going to announce that today, but I haven't seen anything yet.

I just don't get it. The Cubs were frustrated by Corey's inability to be a more selective hitter, so naturally they go out and get a more EXPENSIVE, OLDER version of Corey. I just don't get it. I would prefer Burnitz to Jones. Jim Hendry = No Offseason Plan. Again. That's a ridiculous, baseless accusation. Did his offseason go as planned? Probably not. Did his offseason plan have alot of flexibility in case things didn't go his way? Maybe not. But to say he didn't have a plan is absurd.

What's AL stand for anyways? To me, it stands for the "Alternative League," i.e. the alternative to real Major League Baseball.

No, it's not. Do a little research...TLR has made more accusations over the past few years than the other 29 teams in baseball combined. There hasn't been anymore insinuations going the other way than would be normal despite the fact you guys had two blatantly obvious cheaters in your bullpen (Kline and Tavares). It just doesn't add up.