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All it really does is completely mess up the schedule, it even more unbalanced that it already is, as some teams have significantly different schedules than replica Corum 02120.402800 Men's watch other teams completely unfair competition.Heck this makes “the playing field” even less level than the supposed scourge of steroids, not that the Bonds hating reporters care.There really are not any Big Rivals in interleague the Astros have NO rivalry with the Texas Rangers, Silver Boot nonsense aside.

So here are the matchups for the first round of idiocy:Friday: Matt Albers, RHP vs Robinson Tejeda, RHPWho knows whether or not Good Matt or Bad Matt will show up? He better bring his heavy sinker.He only has this start and maybe 1 more before he is sent back down when JeNgs comes off the DL, so he’ll want to look as good as possible, replica Corum 84040.415010 Men's watch with Jared Gothreaux beginning to heat up in A after so many years of ineffectiveness due to injuries.Tejeda, age 25, was signed out of the DR by Philly and came up in 2005 as a reliever and spot starter.

He was traded to the Rangers before the 06 season for David Dellucci, as the Rangers, for reasons that totally escape me, had traded great starter homeboy Chris Young for el-sucko, much hurt and gonna be a FA starter Adam Eaton.Someday, I need someone to explain THAT one to me.Anyway, he did tolerably OK in 06 with a 5-5 in 14 GS, averaging just over 5 IP GS and ending up with a 4.28 ERA, 1.56 WHIP and a replica Corum 02120.545004 watch IP with a 4.87 ERA, a 1.31 WHIP and a .261 BAAHe has faced the Astros once and threw 5 innings 2 H, 4 BB, 6 K, 1 ERSaturday

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Anyone who has read this blog over the past 3 years knows how much I absolutely DETEST interleague play.Tim Marchman, a GREAT baseball writer, who writes for the NY Sun, explains it better than I could if I wrote and re-wrote it for the next year:“Like most sensible people, I hate interleague play.I can describe this hatred, but to replica Corum 02120.012001 watch explain it would be to do violence to the depth of my contempt for a misbegotten, half-animate monstrosity.The distinctive and unique qualities of the World Series are gone because of interleague play, as is much of the prestige of winning the World Championship.

Interleague play, though, is not to be scorned because it has evil effects.Its evil is fundamental to its nature.By its existence alone, interleague play marks out the rest of the schedule as unworthy of notice and filled with meaningless games of little consequence, mere preludes to the garish spectacles on offer at the beginning and midpoint of replica Corum 02320.692001 watch summer.The slow, comfortable rhythm and routine of the long season, into which we should just now be settling as May winds into its final days, is suddenly broken; the charms of small games against minor teams give sudden, abrupt way to games of apocalyptic consequence.”The boy can WRITE he is seriously John Brattain good, yes he is.

I remember reading through many blogs and comments about hating interleague and some commenter on one of the blogs said something like interleague play is to a baseball season is like having to watch a big Busby Berkeley musical number inserted in the middle of MacBeth.Shocking, eye catching, yes, but it messes up the whole point of the drama.Truth is, interleague is only done because the networks and replica Corum 02320.562001 Men's watch owners like the 3 big series and ONLY the 3 big series for ratings and money.Translation just another excuse to put the freaking Yankees on primetime.

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So Wandy remembered fly ball, fly ball, and Young flew out to left Jason Lane made a great catch at the wall.Wandy struck out the side in the 4th yes, Wandy, struck out 2 and walked 2 and got a flyout in the 5th.He gave up a run in the 6th on a double to center, then a single up the middle I won't even go there then got the last out. replica Corum 02120.102001 watch night 6 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 7 K, 1 ER 97 pitches, 59 strikes.I'm wearing my Wandy t-shirt with PRIDE.And speaking of pride, Biggio is now up to 2970 hits.He just scored his 1800th run, 16th on the all-time list.He just passed Teddy Ballgame yesterday, and he’s 16 behind Yaz.

Amazing.Sometimes I look at all the stats he’s compiled and I realize these last few years it has been easy to forget how good he was.As for team hitting, Koronka, the ex-Cub, shut down the team except for a few scattered hits and walks until he tired in the 6th and 3 straight batters singled.They then broke it open against the lousy replica Corum 02320.742005 watch Ranger relievers and by the end of the inning, it was Astros 6 Rangers 1.Every Astro had a hit, even Wandy, except for Brad Ausmus, who hit into a GIDP which scored a run.And yeh, Lamb WAS out I figger the ump owed us after the blown call on Berkman a week or so back.

But we still would have won 3-1.Brad Lidge was nails again except for a walks and Qualls finished up had a single and an infield dribbler.So at least today, it didn’t matter that Loretta can’t play short.I’m thinking about keeping a running tally of plays made opportunity for both Lamb at third and Loretta at short seems hardly anyone replica Corum 80040.011110 watch believes me when I say they are terrible fielders there.But as long as we hit more and score more than they cost runs, it won’t matter.So the only question for tomorrow is, will Drayton shut the roof or let the fans roast in the 85 degree windless heat?

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What a stinking load baseball players could earn more playing baseball than they could doing just about anything else, they got to travel and screw a LOT more broads than they could if they just sold hardware what, you didn’t KNOW there groupies Back Then too? I’m 27 and I know good and well, that there was NO SUCH TIME.Just as there was NO SUCH TIME that human beings never had until after they were married (just read the Bible replica Corum 84040.521410 Lady watch you disbelieve me)And now we are heading back to San Fran where we are like 2-zillion for the re-matches.Tomorow is Sampson vs Lowry Part Deux.And the hitters better start hitting because sooner or later, other teams are going to get a book on The Saviour and things won’t be going quite as well for him and SOMEbody has gotta pick up the slack.

The Wand Man Pitches another quality start and wins again.Good things come to him who waits.I saw Loretta starting at short and my heart just SANK I thought man, poor Wandy.And sure enough, he missed a DP twice in the first.Wandy and Ausmus replica Corum 10140.501810 watch must have discussed a game plan that wouldn't involve the hitters hitting the ball to the left side in the infield, and sure enough, in the second, the hitters all flied out.In the third, Wandy must have forgotten all about not letting balls go to the left side of the field, because Loretta missed an easy play and Kinsler got on with a single.

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