Im not going to get into the numbers because they will only make me even more angry. But it goes without saying that our bullpen is absolutely terrible right now. Well, outside of Jenks and Thornton everyone is bad.

But I guess the good news is that our offense is back and its doing fairly well but good pitching will always beat good hitting and right now if we don’t have a bullpen, then this is a 3rd-4th place team easy.

Dewon Day (This guy will have the best nickname in baseball if he develops into something, D-Day….how can you not be intimidated by a guy with the nickname of D-Day?) was brought up to try and help and did not have a successful Major League debut at all, gave up 2 runs on 3 hits (should be only 1 run on 2 hits because Iguchi misplayed a ball and stepped on it allowing Redmond to reach). But if he can get his wicked slider over to go with his 90-94 fastball he could turn into a great set-up guy.

The other bone I have to pick with this organization is passing over Josh Fields who is ready to contribute at the major league level now. Ozuna was hurt yesterday for those who have been locked in a closet for the past 24 hours and we needed a replacement, so they pick Andy Gonzalez a nothing who hit a good .240 at Triple A mind you. Kenny is a hypocrite if he doesn’t think Fields can play the outfield, this guy is a full blown athlete and could easily play LF. He’d be a hypocrite because they had 2 guys playing LF who are below average LFs in the first place. Josh couldn’t not only probably play LF he could spell Crede at 3rd or even Uribe at Short because he’s been playing short over the past couple days due to an injury of one of their other players.

Quick blurbs:

1. I hate the Twins even more now
2. I hate HBPs that start rallys
3. And to conclude the "I hate" version of the blurbs I also hate 2 out rallys

Till Next Time.

Ugh, I’m just gonna kinda pretend that Friday and Saturday’s games never happened, because well, that would lead into a long schpeil about how much our bullpen stinks and how disappointed I was that we could have swept this series had our pen decided not to stink.

Personally, I’m not that big of a fan of IL Its fun for like the 1st game of a series and then it’s "meh", and it’s just unfair that some team’s best players can’t play because of the DH rule. While I do agree that AL teams shouldn’t rely on their DHs, Some of the best players in the whole leagues are DHs and its a shame that they can only be used sparingly.

But lets just have a quick recap

Series Breakdown: Cubs Take 2 of 3

Heroes:

Derrek Lee: GS in Game 2

Angel Pagan: Game tying Triple in Game 1; scored winning run

Aramis Ramirez: the only real hot hitter in this series,

Nick Masset: did the job when they needed him the most; may have a future in the rotation,

AJ Pierzynski: Captain Chaos struck again hitting the GS in the 7 run 7th off Cotts (Oh How I’ve missed you buddy haha)

Goats: White Sox Bullpen, Neal Cotts, Carlos Zambrano

Got a hard series against the As coming up, lets hope we hold our own, Thome’s return should help ALOT! haha.

Quick Blurbs:

1. Crede’s back has been acting up again, They need to bring Fields up; I can’t imagine a week of Pablo Ozuna at 3rd.
2. Sweeney was sent down when Thome was activated yesterday, im not a big fan of that
3. Hall was solid was the bat on Friday, a little rusty with the defense though

Till Next Time.

Soooooooo Impressed with how this team responded against that absolutely devastating loss on Tuesday. While you can put give a good amount of credit to the offense (a good amount of 2 out singles and clutch hits) the pitching was absolutely spectacular this series, highlighted by a CG Shutout by the 90 year old Cuban, Jose Contreras.

As much as I loved Jose’s performance today, the one that impressed me the most was Mr. John Danks, who continues impress with his fearless composure on the mound and the way he just attacks hitters.

Danks was in control pretty much the whole game pitching effectively and establishing the corners and putting on a clinic on how to jam hitters. Just so happy that we have this kid and that he got his 1st Major League W

The offense is starting to wake up, but still it would be nice to have Thome in the line up (he’s due back Tuesday hopefully), but most of them have been doing a good job doing the jobs that they’re asked to do. The only one thats really scuffling is JD, who continues to not see the ball well at all.

Alright, time to get ready for KC and hopefully sweep them or 2 outta 3 at least.

Quick Blurbs

1. Keep A&F! (Ryan Sweeney)
2. Toby is due back at the end of May, early June.
3. Gio bounced back from a disastrous outing in his last start K’ing 7 over 5 SO innings.
4. Great catch by Hunter last night, the best I’ve seen so far this year.

Till Next Time.

…we won’t be seeing Santana this series. And at the same time no Mauer, and the Twins are struggling to score runs, but so are we. Soooo in other words, there should be pitchers duels all three games, fun stuff. But this series should be fun, I can’t say I like playing the Twins because out of any other team they annoy me the most because they have those guys that you just wanna see make outs but they battle and battle…and battle. And your sitting there next to your TV screaming "GET OUT ALREADY!", But they don’t and on the 6th pitch of the AB with 2 outs they single through the hole on the left side, then someone else comes up and singles and then before you know it your facing your 7th batter of the inning and the Twins have already rallied for 4 runs putting you into a 4-2 deficit in the 8th inning. I take it back…this series will not be fun, it will be infuriating haha.

Anyway we had a series against the Angels recently, can’t say I liked it, am I happy with the results? Yes, for someone who said we were going to be swept I was pleasently suprised. But still, they can’t hit if their lives depended on it. Saturday was good, we put up 6 runs without hitting a homer but some of those runs were gifts from the Angel’s defense.

I’ll gladly take it though, we need as many wins as we can get.

Quick Blurbs:

1. Captain Chaos bites the Angels again!: You can think of a lot of things when you think of AJ Pierzynski and usually clutch isn’t one of them. But in reality AJ is one of our best clutch hitters and he hurts the Angels once again and must be on OC’s top 5 most hated list.
2. Er-stud in, Pods out: Ozzie is now on record saying that when Pods gets back from the DL, he is no longer the lead off hitter and that its no offically Erstad’s job. The reason? Erstad simply handles the bat better and Pods nor plate patientence are what they used to be. Which is a nice way of saying, we can’t depend on you anymore Pods.
3. Attention Jim Thome: Please hurry back!

Till Next Time.

Well it better flow, and it better flow soon, really soon. Or I don’t know what its going to take to get this offense going. This is a short entry because I don’t really have much though right now that I haven’t said already, so i’ll reiterate.

1. The Offense not only hates John Danks but now all the pitchers
2. But it still hates Danks the most
3. Angels with a 3 game sweep and an 0-5 road trip seems likely, god I hope I’m wrong

Ok then, Jose on the bump tonight, keep us in the game please and don’t let up more than 1 run because we won’t win then, thanks.

Quick blurbs:

1. I just saw "Big Z" get shelled in the 1st, harsh, but I bet he’ll bounce back, this is the Nationals after all.
2. Gio goes tonight for the Barons, give em another 10-13 K performance and you’ll be in Triple A very soon…I hope.
3. Bulls tomorrow afternoon in Detroit, Gooooo Bulls!
4. I found out im terrible at fantasy baseball! yes! haha

Till Next Time.