and Fahey goes down. MASN still acting like it’s a mystery why Lou Montanez is at the team hotel.

And DD says Adam is out for the rest of the series, and then will be re-examined in Baltimore.

I’ve about had it with Sherrill.

I was about to write the same damn thing. He walks Jeff Mathis who is hitting a .220. How the hell do you walk this guy. You throw a damn strike and if he beats you, he beats you. Great comeback albeit aided by Teix’s error. Fuck Sherrill. The flat brim magic is over.

here’s a though: adam everett, king of the no all glove no hit shortstops looks likely to get shitcanned. flyer? i mean, if you’re going to have a glove guy, you may as well have the best.

when payton goes, do you think reimold comes up or do we get fio 2 electric boogaloo? i think calling up waters is an indicator.

bah.

fuck razor.

Inning 1, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 2, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 3, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 4, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 5, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 6, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 7, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Inning 8, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,
Top of Inning 9, This is Birdland, motherfuckers!
Bottom of Inning 9, land of the rally monkey of the Angels of Los Angeles, CA, USA, NA, WH,

I assume B.J. Ryan is the best O’s closer since Randy, right?

Regardless of what happened last night, I still stand behind Sherrill. Everyone can bitch all they want about how bad he is at closer, but he was the only candidate we had at the beginning of the season. McCrory fever got grounded in his futile attempt at the majors. JJ is doing well, but the O’s can’t figure out where he is best suited. Chris Ray comes back next year, but will he be closer material and was he before? Like him or not, Sherrill has given us a good 9th inning guy who, generally, gets the job done. It is always shaky, and we have said all along that he is and was going to be like that, so for people to fly off the handle now after this is just ridiculous.

Chris Waters was a guy I thought might get a September call-up simply because it is nearing that make or break time for him. I hope he does well because we can use any kind of stability in the rotation we can get.

Lou Montanez is another guy who keeps getting overlooked, and at 26, is ready to make his mark. He has been at AA, according to Roch, because the O’s wanted him to play with the better team (Norfolk sucks) to make a run at the playoffs. Also, in AA, he gets constant at-bats. I think if Adam Jones goes on the DL it would be a great time to stick him out in left and give Luke Scott some time off to rest the ankles and feet that are ailing him. If you watched the game last night, you can clearly see Scott is having a terrible time in left field. Here’s to Lou and his debut.

Oops! I was out of town all weekend, so I missed Garrett and Jeremy’s gems. What happened to Adam Jones?

everybody think the dennis sarfate experiment is over or are kranwich and trembles continuing this charade until august?

Way to not close, closer. But then, when you’re starting Sir Fartay, the fact that you’re in closer territory at all is a small miracle…

Meanwhile, the Russian gov’t has decided to play hard to get with visas, the pr#cks, so it looks like I won’t be getting one this month. Which means I get to be around for the September Slide, woot-woot.

In other news—i.e. news from teams whose games are carried by stations more elaborate than two hampsters in a chase-cage urged on by one of Petey’s dimmer nephews—I heard a really good play Sunday in the Yerks-Angels game:

It’s 5-0 Angels. Abreu is on second and The Cap’n on third, one out, and a long fly goes to deep left. The Cap’n tags up, of course, and jogs home easily with the Yerks’ first run.

But then again he doesn’t. See, Abreu also tagged at second and took off for third, where he was tagged out—before Stupidhead scored on his meandering jog home! John Sterling was left speechless. I wasn’t. I said Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

True, it’s a tough call whether The Cap’n was actually stupider than Abreu, who was busy making the third out at third base (hello, cardinal rules) for no conceivable gain. Anyway, it was a nice moment, even though the Angels messed their own pants later and lost.

This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They’re back! There’s no choice left. And I’m ready for war.