dammit! i don't care if it 20:40 and i have to be up at 04:30. tomorrow will be two weeks since i last posted. i was amazed it has been that long. two weeks ago the tribe was finishing up a somewhat disappointing road trip. then they got hot at home, of course! especially grady. now back to the somewhat slightly just barely disappointing road trip. although they came off it with a 5-4 record, i was hoping for 6-3. it could have easily been so. going 1-2 against the royals was obviously the worst part of the trip. but the royals were hot, at the time. since they have come back to reality (their loosing ways). the pen blew a game that was winnable. but the royals really beat our starting pitchers in the series. cliff lee and fausto took the mound for the first time with a multi run lead. at least sowers finally had a good start, and it was a game that kept KC from getting the sweep. then there was a totally awesome and surprising sweep of detroit. paybacks are many bad things, eh detroit? first time swept this season. their bullpen is where ours was at last year, when we still had wicky. despite going 1-2 against the best team in baseball (boston), the series was ok. the red sox just finished sweeping texas in texas. they had their 1, 2, and 3 starters going against our 3, 4, and 5 starters. the two losses were both close, well played (dare i say play-off type almost) games. and we beat diceK to prevent the beantown sweep. it was just about as 'best case' as loosing a series gets.

now we host detroit for 4 games. the tigers just got done loosing 2 of 3 against tampa in tampa. they will want revenge, but they are still hurtin. then we can get some revenge on KC. then off to cincy. this is considered an easy part of the schedule. i hope we continue our hot streak at home. they finally will have some warm weather to play in. hopefully grady's and pronk's good games at the plate today are indicators of more to come. and how about kelly today? he now has the highest average on the team! outstanding.

there were 5 shut outs in 15 games today. 4 occurred in the NL. starting pitchers were sergio mitre, derek lowe, erik bedard, barry zito, and chris young.

chris young and jake peavy might be the best 'one two combo' in baseball. only if fransisco was healthy would they be second. i take san diego's dyanamic duo over beckett and schilling. hudson and smoltz, no doubt. bonderman and verlander, although this as a tough choice. any two the four the white sox would offer as their best. any two of the three (when healthy) that the A's would dangle. halladay and burnett. zito and the second best (lincecum, cain, lowry?) from san fran. ben sheets and chris capuano. bedard and cabrera, not even close. shields and kazmir. oswalt and jennings. zambrano and lilly. c.c. and carmona, hmmm. what were the rangers thinking?

arizona is hot, again.

elijah dukes should be sent back to the minors. come on tampa.

who the hell is germano for SD?

the brew crew is falling back down to earth, as is jack cust.