Well our starting rotation just took another hit. Casey Janssen is back on the DL with shoulder inflammation. He's being replaced by Brad Mills, who will be the 5th Rookie to be in our starting rotation this season. He's been terrible in AAA so not sure why he got the call.

You couldn't make this year up, could you, i would rather have BJ Birdie as our closer than BJ Ryan



I think Jason Frasor should be the next closer for us

I hope you're right. Anyone but BJ...or League



We're off to the Cinci game next Tuesday. $1 hotdogs

Well it's been a right fooking day for our pitching staff. Halliday and Downs also go on the 15 day DL. Replacements to be announced tomorrow. Not sure who they'll bring up for Downs (possibly Accardo) but I'm expecting Cecil to be Doc's replacement.

162 games in a season.

So of course we had both last night! BJ loads the bases, thankfully League has one of his ON days and cleaned up pretty quickly.

Another good road win against an NL team. Great game from Richmond last night and our offence/defence in general. By my estimates the bats are due to go quiet tonight though - poor Brad Mills!

Sing when you're winning...you only sing when you're winning.

Which is quite often

26 and counting.

Not last night.



Seriously though, isn't it about time Wang got sent down to AAA to work on his stuff? He's obviously not right.

His surgery has last year has wrecked him, rather give the young arms a go.

Didn't do any harm bringing Joba up, did it? We're certainly doing that right now. Current starting line-up, 4 rookies and a reliever! Between them they've got a grand total of 46 starts in the bigs.




On the returning from surgery front, we're having similar issues with BJ Ryan. This is his 2nd year back after surgery and he's still all over the place. I think he's well and truely fooked tbh. Unfortunately he's locked into a big money contract so we've not a hope in hell of offloading him.

Carl Pavano is a bit of a let down for us, he is going well at Cleveland.

Do you reckon there's extra pressure on Yankees pitchers because of the weight of expectation?

Definitely, playing in New York is hard, it's like being a Manchester United player i.e not everybody can adjust. Javier Vasquez was the same

I think Cito must have done a deal with the devil to get out of Phillie with a sweep! Still can't figure out how we managed to win yesterday.

ESPN America is free on Sky all weekend with a couple of MLB games on tonight

Inglett down to AAA, Rusty Adams comes up in his place. Shame about Joe but he really shouldn't have been up in the first place, he'd barely played this season and had just come back off the DL.

I hope we're going to use Adams mostly as a DH. If he's out in the field than it's crash helmit time cos that ball could go anywhere. His arm's about as accurate as drunk man peeing.

Another decent outting from Romero yesterday, helped no doubt by a 4 run 1st from the Jays. Day off today then it's home for Cinci tomorrow and those $1 hotdogs. YeeHaa!

Should be an interesting series with us being better on the road than away from home, although we're .500 both home and on the road now. Doesn't look like Votto will be back to mess up the $1 hot dogs too much lol.

We've a much better home record than away but we've been mostly garbage against the NL so who knows? I shall enjoy my cheapo hotdogs in the sun regardless.

The bullpen do their best, but not good enough to throw the game away, Brian Tallet needs to shave the tash though badly! Its even worse watching in HD

Hey, don't knock the stache, it's the source of all his power.



You're right about the BP. When Camp loaded the bases with none out I feared the worst. Was actually a decent crowd last night and they made a fair bit of noise (for Canadians

). Must have been something in those hotdogs.

Tonight's the night for Arroyo. Since his horror start on this day last year against you he has the second most wins in the MLB, second to, erm, Halladay lol.

Speaking of which, you managed to dodge that bullet. He's due back on Monday thank fook! Richmond shouldn't be a pushover though. He pitched really well in his last start, giving up 1 run off 5 hits and only 1 walk through 8 innings. He also struck out 11. Sounds like a decent match-up.

Think Richmond won that match up

Deja vu for Arroyo last night. I actually felt quite bad for him after we hit the 3rd HR.

Another quality start from Richmond and nice to see Dirk pitch the last 2 and give our BP a much needed break. Brooms out tonight? I'm not counting on it as we've another kid on the mound and we're not in the habit of sweeping teams. Would be nice (for us) though. Can't get too far back from the rampant Red Sox.