Thursday, May 15, 2008

So did Murphy get dropkicked?

This game reminded me of 2006. Good offense. Good Bronson. Bad something. Good ending. It was a roller coaster seemingly every game back then, right up to the last week of the season when the guys let us down. (Or rather, Ryan Franklin let us down.) This time around, it wasn't much of a roller coaster until the very end. Guess it's like the Racer or something - kind of dull until you hit the hills. That coaster always made me dizzy - do they still have it?

Can you imagine what Janish feels like right now? Forget heroin - go with getting the game winner for your first Major League hit. I mean, not only are you fulfilling your dream, but you do it in the best way possible. This team needed to come back and win that game after blowing a six run lead in the freaking ninth inning. Memories of past horror came flooding back, and then FSN had to reopen old wounds in showing that May 2005 game when Danny Graves blew a NINE run lead in the ninth. Oh, the pain! The team has a confidence problem and needs to know it can come back from such destruction. It's gonna take the fire of the young guys to do it.

Kudos to Hairston and Janish for picking Keppinger up. Keep it up, guys!

Remember that team that had the best record in baseball three days ago? We just took the series from them. I'm not really expecting to win tomorrow with Belisle on the mound, but I'm hoping to be surprised. Then it's onto the first place Indians, who've just played 43.2 innings of shutout baseball. Like Thom said, they're about due to give up a ton of runs! Hey look, we're only five under .500 right now. The first step is to get to .500...

(Photo is David Kohl/AP)

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