Day: March 22, 2005

ouch

Joe Borowski is out up to two months with a broken hand. (ESPN 1000 – ESPN.com says “3 to 4” weeks and “Mid May”, so I guess it’s April already and I’ve blacked out on the last two weeks. WHEEE.) Well. At least we actually have a time table? This is going to be one … Continue reading “ouch”

Joe Borowski is out up to two months with a broken hand. (ESPN 1000 – ESPN.com says “3 to 4” weeks and “Mid May”, so I guess it’s April already and I’ve blacked out on the last two weeks. WHEEE.)

Well. At least we actually have a time table? This is going to be one heck of a screwed up pen.

Idea #1: LaTroy closes
Problem: Widespread rioting and chaos.

Idea #2: Kyle Closes
Problem: Oh, right.

Idea #2: Chad Fox closes
Problem: We sure are putting a lot on a good spring from a guy without a history of being good.

Idea #3: Jermaine Van Buren closes!
Problem: “Get back in the box, dude.”

He’s not blowing anyone right now either:
9 IP: 6 ER, 11 BB+H, 6 K

Idea #4: Trade for Urbina.
Problem: The lack of trade speculation towards Urbina, including Gammons mentions of Hendry not being at all intersted in him, plus the Tigers replacing him as closer, makes me think there’s something wrong we’re not getting a full picture of.; i don’t think this would be any better than closing with LaTroy, though there wouldn’t be the damage to everyone’s psyche closing with LaTroy would bring.

Idea #5: Trade for Danny Baez
Problem: We sure are putting a lot on someone being someone else’s closer.

Idea #6: Dempster closes, Sergio spot starts in his place.
Problem: We’ve already stretched Dempster out to start and Sergio’s not looked good. Still, if they had no problems with Prior or Wood, I’m thinking this is what would happen.

Ides #7: Rusch closes.
Problem: He’s far from the protypical closer with over powering stuff, and the whole point of him being in the bullpen is to use him as a situationally lefty. (Which is really a worthless way to use Rusch, but hey.)

There really is no Good solution here. Very worrisome.

Best I can figure to start is

SP Carlos
SP Maddux
SP Rusch
SP Wood
SP Prior/Dempster

RHP Dempster/Wuertz
RHP Leicester
RHP Fox

LHP Remmy
LHP Randolph

CL LaTroy.

Take cover.

Randolph is a bit of a surprise, because I’ve been really down on him since the trade. He’s had a good spring. Even though it’s only 6.2 innings of a spring, you might as well roll the dice on someone who’s looked good; it’s a gamble regardless. And I rather have Rusch starting.

Edit: Snipped from the Trib

Does anyone proofread? Anyone?

left over thoughts

Clearing the plate. I was writing NCAA stuff when I accidentally deleted it and now I have nothing to talk about but it’s now too late to start much now. The Angle video package on RAW was pretty good. Fixed the Cubs index to include all the posts. It’s a sign I have too much … Continue reading “left over thoughts”

Clearing the plate. I was writing NCAA stuff when I accidentally deleted it and now I have nothing to talk about but it’s now too late to start much now.

The Angle video package on RAW was pretty good.

Fixed the Cubs index to include all the posts. It’s a sign I have too much disposible income (fueled mostly by people paying me back for the NCAA tickets I bought) and it’d fix half of the nagging problems (which is what happened there) I’ve got around here.

On the other hand, it’s also $70 for a freaking posting script. Woo freaking woo. I think I should just see if I could hack into the things I need, but whenever it comes time to do something like that, I rather do something else.

The audio on my computer sucks lately. Lots of popping and cracking during songs. I have no idea what’s going on but it’s horribly annoying when I’m trying to listen to Phil’s Mom’s picks. It’s also one of those things (like my broken car CD player), since I use my iPod for most of my music listening, I forget about for months till it comes back to haunt me.

Getting a new laptop battery, so I’ll actually be able to use the computer more than eight feet from a plug. Just in time for spring, which should work out well. Assuming I’m not inside watching baseball.

The teaser on FMA was horrendous in it’s twist teasing: “We’ve cried some, laughed at a lot, even seen hell together – how could all my memories be fake?” Al better not MEAN that, or this show is about to cliff dive. I get bad vibes when people even hint ‘the last ten hours of TV you watched didn’t really happen and doesn’t really count’.

* – assuming I’m not one episode behind; TiVo has to do some gymastics to get everything I want done but I think the last time shift got me back in order on this and five days behind on GitS.

Should get something or other done this week. I have no idea what that means. So so self loathing.

Eh. Bored with this quick. Want to have an actual conversation, too late at night for it to happen. Sucks. Desperately in need of a late night hang out place. This may sound strange, but sometimes having a fake life doesn’t cut it.