Welcome to the first edition for the 2008 season. I plan on running this weekly and posting up at the beginning of the week. Inside, I'll break down a few players, highlight some performances, and give any other comments to things that I have come across. Lastly, I'll give the Scott Moore Update (SMU) because that's just what I do.

Opening Words from P-Wubbia

Now, I know it has been pointed out before, but it is still fun to talk about. We are in first place folks, and we have the best record in the bigs tied only with the Milwaukee Brewers. We were tied with St. Louis too, but despite Jose Valverde's best efforts to tank the game, the Astros defeated the Cards. 5-1 in our first six games with a 5 game winning streak. Brian Burres starts tomorrow against Jason Jennings in Arlington, and I fully expect him to step up like he did in spring trianing. I have been a full beliver that Burres is a major league contributor as a swingman, but he has to impress me to show he deserves to be in someone's rotation. Can he do it against the pitching-less Rangers? He better because I want to be talking about a 6 game winning streak tomorrow night.

Luis Luis!

In the first 4.99 of games you were without any hits and really living up to your reputation for having no ability to swing the bat. With Dave Trembley exhausting all of his reserves earlier in the inning other than the inept Brandon Fahey, you were left to face Mark Lowe to try and cap off the big comeback. Luis, I was there, and it was beautiful. I couldn't believe how much they were playing you to slap because they left you a huge gap in right center field and you hit it perfectly. You have given me hope that you will contribute to this team more than with your glove as you added a couple more hits in today's game. Here's to a good season for you because who knows how long you'll have this job.

Luuuuuuuke!

In my memory, I go back to the early 90's with Randy Milligan when he was called "Moose." I was fairly young and thought the crowd was booing before someone pointed out what was really being said. Soon after Milligan came Mussina and the crowd yelling "Muss." Now, it is Luke Scott and the resounding "Luuuuuke!" from the crowd. Batting a cool .500 in your first 16 ab's, you have won over this Baltimore crowd. I am a big supporter for you to be in the team's plans for the next couple of years as the LF and, eventually, DH when Huff is sent packing. You provide solid pop to the line-up and have earned a starting job on this ballclub.

Huffmeister

You pretty much have won 2 games for the Orioles, and the fans still won't give you a break. Eventually, the fans will find someone else to boo, but you are all we have at the moment. D-Cab hasn't had a complete meltdown, Mora hasn't bragged about his post-season experience, and no one cares about Jay Payton, so you are stuck being the hated guy in Baltimore. I think it works for you, anyway. Now, you have a reason to go out and try and shut up the home crowd. A real nice start to the season with 2 HR and 7 RBI. That .217 avg is nothing to flaunt, but every hit seems to be a clutch one. The sooner you get hot, the sooner we can ship you off to a contender and pick up some prospects because Scott Moore would love to have your full-time DH job. It would, also, be nice because we'd have some solid home run power in the middle of the line-up and we'd keep winning games.

RANDOOOOOOOR!! (Say it like Strongbad's "Trogdor" and you'll understand)
Sar-fah-tay
Texas Walker
Pornstache Bradford
Babyface Albers
George Flatbrim

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This group has done more than our $45 million bullpen of last year already, and we are 6 games into the season. I am confident that if any of you get a call out of the pen that the job will get done. You should tell your boy Aquino that only donuts are allowed on the field. Young on one end of the pen and wiley veterans on the other side has blended into a solid bullpen that is delivering like the pen that everyone that we should've had last year. Chris Ray can come back and replace Aquino, but someone has to let him know that weak he was bringing last year won't be tolerated. Anyone else get a funny feeling thinking about the Ray Gun closing, Sar-fah-tay and RANDOOOOR setting up? I do. We might have to add Rhadamas Liz to the list soon if he doesn't fit in with all the arms we brought in.

Statistical Highlights

- 29:22 K/BB in 54 innings. 9 of those 22 walks come from Daniel Cabrera.
- 3-0, 21.1 innings from our bullpen, 2 ER, 0.84 ERA, 0.66 WHIP. Yeah, wow. Both ER belong to Aquino.
- 13:5 K/BB from the bullpen
- Luis Luis 3 for 9 with 2K's; Fahey 0 for 5 with 3K's. Why is Fahey on this team again? Cintron will replace him soon enough.
- 7 SB's in 6 games, 3 belonging to Brian Roberts
- 2 Errors as a team in the first 6 games

SMU

Scotty doesn't know
That he hasn't started yet
Trembley tells him he will
But Scotty didn't go
Still he pinch hits
And Scotty doesn't know

0 for 2 with 2K's. Scotty, we know you'll deliver when you get your chance this week to play. Make the most of it because we all know you are far more valuable than Fahey and Gibbons. Scotty will be at 3rd tomorrow, 2nd thursday, and 1st on saturday. He'll also be handing out programs friday, taking tickets on sunday and dressing as the oriole bird next wednesday. This kid can do it all.

Closing Words from P-Wubbia

We are in first place, and I am going to suck it up as much as I can. I am bragging to all my yankee fan friends, red sox fan tards, and I pointing out that there is nothing than can do about it for at least 48 hours. I call for a huge party. Everyone get drunk and enjoy the moment because the moment could very well pass faster than we'd ever thought. Still, I think this team could be competitive all year and will perform better than last year's team as I have predicted. If they keep up the small ball, the solid bullpen play, and get some quality starts from the starters, then this team could very well shock the baseball world. Trust me folks, the expectations are low. Let's show the world that the <s>Devil</s> Rays are still the worst team in the East, and they can take their last predictions and shove it.

P-Wubbs Out.