HEY REDSOCK!

[vansmack]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  And I don't feel so good about the Ortiz/Sele dilemma for the #4 starter.  John Lackey will pitch a gem tomorrow, however.  If you need a spot starter tomorrow for fantasy, he's your guy.

Since I'm always the first guy to point out when I'm right, I'll be the first to point out that I really missed this one.  Lackey got rocked.
 
 And I guess I should point out that Rhodes took only one week to blow his first save.  My instincts sense a trend, but my fantasy hopes rely on the alternative.  
 
 Bede, thanks for the heads up on the Avril Show.  I drove over there, but it was ridiculously crowded so I left.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  course, the nl central is all messed up right now with the astros, cards and cubs under .500 right now.  
 

the astros/cards series this week will hopefully send the cards to the top, and there is no way the reds and brewers will continue to win

[Guiny]

Bartolo Colon's two victories helped me go 6-1 this week so i'm very happy about that. Mike Hampton though is not making my week 2 start off very good.   :mad:

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
   Mike Hampton though is not making my week 2 start off very good.    :mad:  

Russ Ortiz made me feel the same pain last week.

[keithstg]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  And I don't feel so good about the Ortiz/Sele dilemma for the #4 starter.  John Lackey will pitch a gem tomorrow, however.  If you need a spot starter tomorrow for fantasy, he's your guy.

Since I'm always the first guy to point out when I'm right, I'll be the first to point out that I really missed this one.  Lackey got rocked.
 
 And I guess I should point out that Rhodes took only one week to blow his first save.  My instincts sense a trend, but my fantasy hopes rely on the alternative.  
 
 Bede, thanks for the heads up on the Avril Show.  I drove over there, but it was ridiculously crowded so I left. [/b]

The Angels staff has seemed pretty inconsistent thus far. Congrats to Eric DuBose, who put up another "nightmare" start for the O's; proving that spring training is, well, spring training.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by keithstg:
  The Angels staff has seemed pretty inconsistent thus far.

I think that can be said for every staff thus far (except Florida, who have been salid in every game thus far).

[keithstg]

And perhaps the Cardinals, who have been uniformly bad.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by keithstg:
  And perhaps the Cardinals, who have been uniformly bad.

yeah that complete game by morris was horrible, and the 6 inning 1 run start by Marquis was just pitiful

[keithstg]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by keithstg:
  And perhaps the Cardinals, who have been uniformly bad.

yeah that complete game by morris was horrible, and the 6 inning 1 run start by Marquis was just pitiful [/b]

Well, Morris lowered his era to a respectable 4.20,and Marquis is an incredible 5.56, which is just below the staff era of 5.43. I guess those starts helped a ton, because the rest of the starting staff doesn't have an era under 6.00!

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by keithstg:
 

Originally posted by pollard:
 [qb]  Well, Morris lowered his era to a respectable 4.20,and Marquis is an incredible 5.56, which is just below the staff era of 5.43. I guess those starts helped a ton, because the rest of the starting staff doesn't have an era under 6.00! [/b]

the stats are much worse than the games actually seemed, I followed all of the games, and while the brewers games were horrific, things have settled down a lot, in a couple of weeks I think they will be fine, Williams came back too early, Suppan has only had 1 start, Carpenter had trouble in his first inning back after a couple of years but was fine for most of the game
 
 once the pitching is better they should go on a nice little run, the offense certainly is not having any problems

[keithstg]

Originally posted by pollard:
 once the pitching is better they should go on a nice little run, the offense certainly is not having any problems [/QB]

Yeah, Rolen has been teriffic thus far.

[ratioci nation]

erase my comments about cardinals pitching improving, wow they are bad

[Guiny]

Roger Clemens is still God...........and Bartolo Colon is Jesus.   :cool:

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  you mean the year he went 11-4 and had 44 saves?

No, I meant this Billy Koch:
 
 2/3 IP, 4 Hits, 4 Runs, 4 ER, 1 Walk, 0 SO, 2 HRs for an 11.25 ERA
 
 for his second blown save this season (though he was only credited with one because he gave up the first 4 runs, but not the tying run last week).

[Guiny]

Danny Kolb.........Save #3, great news for my fantasy team.