i commend you.

may i take this chance to post my effort from last year?

sunday mournin comin down

Sure, Olson deserved to suck up this L, and bigtime. He was awful. But for what it’s worth, the guy who won this game also gave up 7 ER. Put otherwise, the proximate cause of the actual loss here was not Olson, but Cormier—and the penalty for this should be a BH.

Even the “mop up guy” should have a category of risk/reward beyond ERA. If his team miraculously wins after his departure, as ours almost did last night - although “almost” is a very elastic word for the Orioles - he should get a Hold or something to indicate the critical part he played in making the succesful outcome possible.

In other news, Sid sobered up long enough to pitch a strong 6 (1 ER 3 K) for the Yerks. He owned the old , bad Debbil Rays , if you recall; I figure maybe he now lacks the brain cells to realize they’re become good since he was, er, away.

In other other news, It’d be nice to see Guts not get shtupped by a sudden chill from the currently-hot-hitting O’s, and even nicer to see Halladay have to work for his K’s tonight, wouldn’t it? Toward the latter end, let’s keep track of how many homer calls Halladay gets tonight on balls and strikes. For whatever reasons, plate umpires calling his games - and especially in the Poiteness Dome - just seem to feel a real hankerin’ for that good ol’ home cookin’. It’s outrageous.

Go O’s! And in final other news—nice song, Dino!