Sunday, July 31, 2005
Trade Deadline & Dodgers
You don't want to make a trade just for the sake of doing something, but today was pretty anti-climatic all around. There were some rumors about the Cards getting Lawton, and if all it took was Gerut from the Cubs, I wonder what Jocketty offerred, if anything at all. Maybe Hendry has some pictures of the Pirates' GM or something. Oh, well. Time to start making a list of guys with biggish contracts that can get through waivers. (As an aside, is there anyone flakier than Manny Ramirez?)
I missed most of Friday's game. And a good thing, too, I think. What a stinker. Morris appeared to have had his head, well, you know; two errors; 11 LOB. Saturday much much nicer. It was on Big Fox out here, so I wasn't a minute behind listening over the internet. Edmonds getting a home run-that's no big deal. Mabry, yeah that's not out of the ordinary. But Eckstein? Cool. The little guy had a double, too. So did Suppan, come to think of it. Still left 10 on base, though. Today wasn't very pretty, but a win's a win, right? The Cards had nine walks and nine hits, Dodgers had 10 walks and eight hits. Both left 10 on (seeing a pattern here?). Not exactly a clinic put on out there. These suicide squeezes are getting routine. I don't want La Russa to stop putting them on, I love them, but if I know it's coming-everyone must know. Poor Rodriguez, no hits in a game for the first time, though he walked twice and had a very nice assist. Jimmy sure saved King's bacon today. And that's all I'm going to say about Ray. I'll take four of six on a quick West Coast trip every day and twice on Sundays.
Quick turn around and the Marlins and Braves are in town starting tomorrow. There'll probably be about six runs total in those seven games.
I missed most of Friday's game. And a good thing, too, I think. What a stinker. Morris appeared to have had his head, well, you know; two errors; 11 LOB. Saturday much much nicer. It was on Big Fox out here, so I wasn't a minute behind listening over the internet. Edmonds getting a home run-that's no big deal. Mabry, yeah that's not out of the ordinary. But Eckstein? Cool. The little guy had a double, too. So did Suppan, come to think of it. Still left 10 on base, though. Today wasn't very pretty, but a win's a win, right? The Cards had nine walks and nine hits, Dodgers had 10 walks and eight hits. Both left 10 on (seeing a pattern here?). Not exactly a clinic put on out there. These suicide squeezes are getting routine. I don't want La Russa to stop putting them on, I love them, but if I know it's coming-everyone must know. Poor Rodriguez, no hits in a game for the first time, though he walked twice and had a very nice assist. Jimmy sure saved King's bacon today. And that's all I'm going to say about Ray. I'll take four of six on a quick West Coast trip every day and twice on Sundays.
Quick turn around and the Marlins and Braves are in town starting tomorrow. There'll probably be about six runs total in those seven games.
