Apr 27 2009
Hey folks - I apologize for not posting over the last few days, I was under the weather last week. With that said, I am absolutely disgusted with what happened over the weekend at Fenway. If you told me that Mo was gonna blow a 4-2 lead in the 9th in game 1, and Burnett was gonna blow a 6-0 lead in game 2, I would’ve laughed right in your face. I don’t know what happened, but we gotta bounce back in the next series against Detroit immediately. You can’t give Boston any inch of hope, or else they’ll battle back and kill you. I’m sure we’ll get straigtened out, but it’s just a punch to the gut when you get swept in the house of your arch-rival.
In addition to the bad series, Brian Bruney has been lost to the 15-day DL, which hopefully isn’t a bad injury - the guy has been lights out in the bullpen, so it’s a damn shame. However, this now opens the door for the very promising young hurler, Mark Melancon. Since spring-training, I’ve been talking about this kid, and how he may possibly be the next great one to come up. How many times have we seen a player get hurt, and then all of a sudden a guy like Joba comes up and the rest is history. We will find out what he’s got in the next few weeks, and then assess how the bullpen looks once again. Ransom was also put on the DL, but he wasn’t doing much to begin with. Alex Rodriguez will be back soon, and Pena can play anywhere with that vaccuum-glove he’s got.
Tonight we take on Justin Verlander, who has been an utter disgrace since last year when he completely imploded. This is a kid who won 18 games 2 years ago, and 17 games the year before that, but suddenly he’s just lost his focus. It’s a little similar to Wang, except Wang was on his way to having another dominant year before getting hurt last season. The Tigers have a very good line-up, but their pitching is just a mess, so we should at least take 2 out of 3 in this series. Sabathia will throw tonight, and it would be nice to see him go out there and give us a quality/deep start.
Let’s go big guy.
