I'd be quite surprised if Giambi wasn't still on HGH or some other undetectable PED. Even with BALCO and Grimsley, MLB testing is still ridiculously easy

Report: Tejada named in Grimsley affidavit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062601355.html

So now Jason Grimsley, Rafael Palmeiro, and Jose Canseco have all said Tejada is on roids. I think it's safe to add him to "the bad list"

Robinson Cano put on the 15 day DL for the Yanks and added to the growing list of injured players. Offense has been struggling a bit as of late, so this won't help.

Definitely can't afford to fall too far behind the Sox right now. Only 3.5 back but the Red Sox seem to be playing great baseball and the Jays are definitely staying pace.

The biggest problem is obviously pitching, namely the bullpen. Farnsworth has obviously been awful. Not good news when you are up 5-0 in the 9th and Rivera still has to be brought in when the bullpen gives up a couple runs.

Starting pitching has been decent. Mussina, Wang, Johnson (as of late) have all been solid. Wright has been good for the 5 innings he is able to pitch, Chacon has been pretty much like Wright (going 5 or so innings) but has given up quite a bit of runs in there.

I think starting pitching as you said is doin ok, if Johnson and Wright can both continue to pitch like they have been i'll be a lot more confident.

But 3.5 games is not a tiny lead anymore, i know its only a 4 game swing, but still, i'd rather not let that get any bigger seeing as there's currently no way either us or the BoSox will make the wildcard.

Is it just me, or is Andruw Jones twice the size he was back in 96? I was watching the WS video the other day and i dunno, looking at his mug on the mlb website, he's fucking huge

Lol @ Derek Lowes ERA going from 2.90 to 3.49 in one game. Twins Baseball, fuckin' 'em up and staying 11 games back.

What's Derek Lowe's asian reporter mistress average up to?

Mauer = .392

What if Mauer played on the Red Sox, ESPN would probably give him his own show

What if Ozzie Guillen brings AJ Pierzynski to the All Star Game?

As to Slugs comments about Contreras, I think the main reason that he hasn't shown up in these polls is because he missed some time and his 3.15 ERA and 1.09 WHIP still aren't the best in the AL. His ERA is fourth in the AL and his WHIP is about sixth, other stats are kind of off because he missed time. But Santana and Halladay are both better in both categories. Contreras does have the edge in opponents BA, but he has more walks than the other two combined and plays on a super team, which helps with the wins.

He should definately be an All Star in my opinion, and at the end of the year he could be a Cy Young candidate, but if the votes were right now he wouldn't be.

Ozzie Guillen will probably bring Pierzynski to the All-Star game, just to prove he doesn't hate gay people. Ba-boom-pish

The Braves are currently looking like they are the shit. What has happened?

Well they have to beat the Yankees first...

You know things are bad when you're next to Pittsburgh and Washington in the pile:|

Jesus, Scott Proctor just managed to get out of a bases loaded jam after hitting Diaz.

Looks like its been another strong outing from Wang, and Smoltzy. We've left 20 on base though:o

The team has left 12 on this game. 20 LOB is everybody's LOB added together, which there is no point to really.

Thats just another in a long line of baseball statistics which are pointless!

Santana with another gem, ERA now under 3. And he is known to drop his ERA by 2 runs after the All-Star break. The 90's had Pedro, Clemens, Maddux, Johnson; I think Santana is going to be remembered as "that guy" from the 00's.

Bases loaded AGAIN

I've only seen Santana pitch once unfortunately, we only get 2 games a week and naturally the Twins are rarely on.

The one game i did see he looked shit hot, threw 8 gave up 1, with plenty of K's and barely a walk in sight.

Justin Verlander
8 IP, 7 K, 3 H, 0 BB, 0 ER

Man he and Vernon Wells have easily been my best fantasy buys this year!

Jesus fucking christ, TBS and ESPN have the same game, its in the fuckin 12th, just get it oooovvver with for fuck's sake.

Thank you A-rod.

*shrug*

That's what we get for turning a starter who gives up more HR than anybody into a closer.

But... but... I thought A-Rod wasn't clutch. That's what ESPN told me. I thought it was against the rules for anyone other than Ortiz and Jeter to hit walkoffs

WOOOOOO

I wouldn't necessarily call that clutch...more like easy...but I'll let ya'll have it anyway.

Any way to get Yankee fans to stop booing him for no reason.

Fuck yes!

Actually Miz i've heard Bernie Williams refered to as 'clutch' before as well

:lol:

mlb.com - 'ARod comes through in the clutch...'

Headline!

A-ROD HIT A WALKOFF HOME RUN

Seriously.

Maybe its a Dominican thing.

Excluding DJ obviously

Miz, Santana's ERA was 2.75 coming into the game (maybe 2.70 I forget)

I meant to say "ERA now well under 3"

Just making sure. But damnit, I haven't been watching much Sports Center lately, but besides the AL making a mockery of the NL, what is going on in the AL Central during interleague has just been sick. I think it is safe to say that the Cardinals are one of the better teams in the NL, the Astros aren't bad, and the Dodgers are probably a NL playoff team, and they went a combined like 2-12 or something against the Sox, Tigers and Twins. It was probably worse then that. How is Schilling doing though?

The NL is just shit period. Every year there's one really good team (Mets this year, Cardinals the year before) 2 or 3 other okay teams (Cards, Dodgers, Padres) and everybody else is pretty much shit. It seems like there is never any clear #1 team in the AL and there are at least 8 right now who have a post-season caliber ballclub and that's not even counting the Angels and Indians who you've got to think will turn their season around at some point

Red Sox just took a shit on Pedro. 4-0 in the first (only 2 his fault though, Mr. Hype Milledge fucked some shit up)

<font color=goldenrod>I can't believe I waited all week for the Pedro return.

4-0 already. Mets offense can come back, but Beckett seems to be on so I doubt it.

If they don't win tomorrow either then they are fucked. The three worst starters heading into Yankee Stadium. El Duque will almost certainly be rocked.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>If the back end of our rotation continues to falter, I think the Mets need to give up Milledge for Willis. Granted, Milledge will probably always rape us...but if we can't get Willis for another OF prospect I'd do it.

Carlos Gomez is supposed to be awesome. I also heard good things about Ambiorix Concepcion, Fernando Martinez, and Jamar Hill so I dunno. I definately wouldn't wanna deal Martinez tho.</font>

how abotu a.j burnett last night. now if he could only stay healthy......who am i kidding he'll be back on the dl in two weeks

Wow Red Sox are like 13-1 during interleague play this year

Pedro got rocked, Gonzo took him deep haha

Pedro is still the man tho

Wow the A-Rod walk-off HR made me so ridiculously happy today. Like felt MAD HAPPY for him. The game was so dramatic it was crazy. Yankee fans were booing him throughout the game and he had an error and was just having a bad game and then WHOOOOO. Movie script game.