We have a chance to effect the AL East in a big way here, regardless of our actual record over the next four weeks. Your “happy points” are key to that impact, though, and are important to keep sight of. I really hope Huff continues to hit well so we can trick some team into trading for him. The Mariners need some offense….. do you think they’d be dumb enough to trade with the Orioles again?

i’ll start the bidding at 10-17.

Orioles #1!!

But bashing the red sox in Baltimore is as good a start as I could imagine.

Hope it’s a miserable trip back to MA (and VA and Towson).

I’ll go 13 – 12.

Boston is going to take some games back from us. I figure we’ll win most of the other series – TB & Minn maybe not.

The readers over at the Baltimore Sun are really optimistic

that means they gotta go 8-17 for me to be correct. that’s tough for any baseball team to do.

...it would be great to come finish this stretch above .500 or better. But let’s remember, we have 4 starters pitching pretty well, we need a 5th. I will admitt, I liked the fact that Steve Trachsel was signed to a minor league contract, but he has performed well under par and piches soooooooo s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w. Maybe use Matt Albers every 9th game? (a 4 1/2 man rotation?)
And now that Alex Cintron & Freddie Bynum are our new shortstops, where does that leave Luis Hernandez, I haven’t seen him in days. Maybe he should be optioned to Norfolk & Oscar Salazar should be called up. It would give the O’s a right handed ‘power’ hitter off the bench & would be able to give Millar a well deserved couple of days off.

... just my thoughts.

But I think we can take 2 of 3 from the Yankees.