Bullpen help is probably the most common need for ALL teams.

Amazing week for my DBacks, currently on a 5 game win streak. It all got started by a Stephen Drew walkoff from Hoffman. They won games pitched by some of the top pitchers: Peavy, Young, Zito, Cain, and Morris.

They now get to face LA and a bullpen that just went through a 17 inning game. I hope they can get Wolf's pitch count high and have him out by the 6th inning.

2ND BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL BABY, TOPS IN THE A.L. TAKING 8 OF 9 SERIES..... AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED HITTING YET......

add that to Lebron and the Cavs and the Browns draft.....

dare I say it???????


2007 THE YEAR CLEVELAND COMES BACK TO LIFE

:thumbsup:

(btw: the Jake and her fans are awakening and that place is starting to rock like it did in the 90's. WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU)

*YAWN*

What was that Pan?? Sorry I couldn't hear you.. I think it was the chant of "It's too early in the season to call anything" ringing in my ears.

Clevland will fall after the break. Mark it down.

pan: SSH!! You're going to jinx us.

gucci: GO TO HELL. :)

Cleveland has a basketball team?

Yeah and arguably the best player in basketball.

Plus a football team that in the 1st round of the draft got a very strong offensive tackle and what some say is a franchise QB.

Plus a baseball team now going 9-1 in their last 10, best record in all of baseball and their bats are just now waking up......

It's a great time to be a Cleveland fan.

If you're going to start calling LeBron arguably the best player in basketball, you might as well hook your IV up to ESPN for some more wonderful opinions. He's good, but he's got a few hurdles to jump before he's even in the top 5.

BUT that's basketball.

In other news... Dodgers are doing quite well without Schmidt. And they're doing it how I imaged; holding teams to low scores and inching a bit further. The offense will come soon.

The Giants put Ortiz on the dl and might be calling up Lincecum. Their starters look amazing with him replacing the donut boy.

And.. here comes The Rocket on his white horse and shiny armor to save the hapless yankees. Pfft.. good luck Clemens..you can't win em all.

I was a bit pissed when he didn't choose Boston because frankly, I'd love to see him end his career there. However, I knew he wouldn't get what he wanted in Boston money wise or rotation wise.

And How! - NHL playoffs AND Baseball....

Look to the Jays to make a run for it. Better than second in the east this year.

I think it's bullshit that this half season crap is allowed by MLB. If you are healthy then play the whole year.

The Cubs are above .500! The Cubs are above .500! They actually swept the Nationals over the weekend, and the bullpen is starting to look less and less like an amputees' convention. Sure Prior and Wood are injured, but that was a given, and their high points were 4 years ago.

I'm not making the call for playoff tickets any time soon, but if they keep playing like this, they'll move up in what's probably the weakest division in baseball. And they've got a better record than the White Sox, which makes me even happier.

well.. MLB isn't going to complain because of the money involved.

I don't like it either (well.. only because he's not on the Bo'Sox) but there's more important issues for MLB to work out first.

The problem is, sometimes you get legitimate free agents who are not signed before the season, and teams sign them later on.

Clemens' situation is really no different then anyone else's, except for his stature. You cannot make a rule for him without affecting too many others.

(Of course, considering he isn't the horse he used to be and that is what the Yankees REALLY need to save their bullpen, he probably will matter little in terms of the playoffs: the bats will carry that team where it will go.)

But for that kind of money - $28,000,000 for half a season? Why don't the Yanks put their season on the back of another Texas great - Ryan.

Because he's about a decade older, and hasn't been pitching? :p

Money is no object for the Yankees; they just sent their multimillion-dollar Japanese pitcher to Single-A.

It sure is quiet in here when the Cleveland and Baltimore fans aren't yapping :p

Cleveland is still winning baby, I just have a honeymoon to plan and a Rev. Sharpton to yell about.

Plus, yeah they did just lose only their second series this week to California (damn Anaheim..... wait oops errrrr LA...... fuck it the Angels that team Disney owned), the bats are still dead and Sowers is turning into a bust.... but it's still early and a great time to be a Cleveland fan.

Lebron and the Cavs get closer and will beat the Nets tonight and we have a Joe Thomas and Brady Quinn to get ready......

Life is still good for the sports fan in NE Ohio.

Now for Clemens.... I think it is a travesty baseball is allowing this. The first year he did it it was cool but now???????

But it's all good one of these years (quite possibly this one) he'll fall apart. I'm actually happy Houston didn't sign him, I don't think Houston can spend that kind of money and hold on to Oswalt, who is younger and just as good if not getting better than Clemens is today and Boston doesn't need Clemens.... The Yankees may have just paid a God awful sum to a broken down workhorse......

That's right, Angels baby! Matthews Jr. OWNES Cleveland.

All things considered, the Halos have been consistently... inconsistent. A surge of offense followed by a lull. Not to mention more than their fair share of early season injuries. Still good enough to be first place in the AL West.

BTW, when did Milwaukee get so freakin good? 24-10? Mercy!

Don't they do this all the time?? They make it a habit.

It's not hard to have the top record in baseball when you play in the worst division in baseball ;)

I'm proud of my Bo'Sox! If they can stay healthy and not slump at the right time.. I'll be trying to buy tickets come October :)

God, the Sox are about to lose to the Orioles. I thought they were the GOOD team.

(By the way, that would be the second-place Orioles, who will be six games out after tonight (and four out after Sunday ;).)

You think the Orioles are going to win a series?? Well I guess we could let them have something good this season. I mean it's going to suck for the O's when they go from second to 4th by the end of the year.

We have nothing to worry about with Trachsel pitching for the O's today.

The O's aren't that bad we only took 2 of 3 from them.

Now who has the best record?? :D :D

The Bo'Sox are playing amazing baseball right now. I just hope they can keep it up.

I tried to warn all the O's fans not to get too excited.. even the pitiful yanks are ahead of them.

Clevland will get a little help by the Sox destroying Detroit.. but Detroit will come out on top in that division.

OK Hal... Freeway series starts tonight. I got $20 on the Halos for the series.

You have never seen your Halos so futile as they will be going up against my pitching.

That's $20 wasted if you ask me. The Angels look like crap right now.

All 5 starting pitchers healthy... (Lackey 4th best ERA in MLB)
Colon is 5-0...
Guerrero is killing all opponents...
Rodriguez is 12/13 saves...
First place in the AL West...


Yeah, I'd say they look like crap too. If by crap you mean they should be further ahead in the division than they already are.

I mean, they just don't look as good as I thought they would. We both know the Angel's have major defensive issues... and those issues are going to bite eventually..

Tonight is Brad Penny (Cy Young at this point) versus.. who?
Assuming Hendrickson takes his Prozac tomorrow, we'll be good for the whole series.

I was going to say to be patient with Sowers because he's only 24 but I took another look at his major and minor league stats. The kid can't buy a strikeout. Every year in the minors his K/9 got worse. You can't be a successful MLB pitcher if you can't get a strikeout.

True, Santana is the "weakest" of the Halo's 5 starters, but he has good stuff and is VERY good at home.

As the saying goes... Play ball!

Well that was crap. *eats foot*

OK, Blue fans, yer 0 fer 2. Halos going for the sweep. Not bad for a team that looks like crap.

No not bad. If only we can actually score the people we get to 3rd.

So this weekend I got 10-1 odds from a Bosox fan on a possible ALDS battle between the Red Sox and the Indians. What is it about Red Sox fans that makes them so supportive and arrogant in May and so dismissive and quiet in September?

I suppose it's better than being dismissive and quiet the entire year ;)

THE JAKE IS COMING ALIVE.........................

Has anyone else had a chance to see Randy Johnson lately? His first couple of starts were quite rough. Most likely he wasn't ready to come back yet but since then he has been fucking monster. In his last start he was hitting 96 at times and he's striking out batters in bunches.

DBacks' bats are finally coming back to life. Pen is fucking dominant. They are in a really good position right now.