Wait, I may have my urban legends confused. Again. See what happens when you leave the country for a while?

Despite B-Rob’s nice evening, I voted for Nobody Home, ‘cause, well, it was just a litle voice o’ Birdland crying in a wilderness of unbirdlandedness. Or something. I woulda voted for Guts on the strength of his QS, but that would’ve meant another load of jello landing on my head for Failure to Recognize That “quality” and “disappointing” Are Actually Synonyms :)…and a probable hauling-up before the Subcommittee for food fighting— which I really can’t afford right now, since I won’t accept a court-appointed attorney again after that bad experience with Alberto Gonzales and the parking tickets. Guy couldn’t remember a damn thing about my case.

I agree with duck— or want to, anyway, based on a combination of the laws of statistics and probability plus hope triumphing over experience— that we stand a really good chance tonite of kicking the sh*t out of Garrett Olson, who was shelled in his last start and has exactly one QS on the books this year. Plus, you’re right— he’s Garrett Olson!

Other ex-O twirlers continue to flounder— a nice descriptive word for Sid, of course, who’s resting (un)comfortably on the KC DL, presumably preparing for his next DFA. Along those lines, D-Cabs remains off the map, as far as I can tell; but at least his Gnats pic on the Yahoo team site has him in the right hat (Sid’s so “travelled” now, he’s in a Twins cap on the KC page. I think he should go generic, at this point.) On the up side, we recall only too well how Monsieur Erik is doing lately. Which I think is great, really…as long as it isn’t against us. Plus, some sort of residual sense of the Rightness of Things makes me feel that the M’s deserve more than they’ve gotten out of that trade. All right, call me a bleeding-heart liberal.

And over in the NPL tonite, future HoF candidate Jamie Moyer takes the hill again. His Hall chances, I’d say, depend on his longevity— meaning he needs to not die of old age before his first eligibility year. This may be tougher than it sounds, since the guy is what, 72 or something now.

Go O’s!

I voted B-Rob for breaking out of his slump.
And I think Wieters is getting heated up.
But this offense still makes me tear up. Please score some runs tonight again Garrett Olson. Really, you guys know it’s not that hard.

Felix is (from what I’ve seen) a legitimate actual good pitcher unlike some of these guys this past week who put on their lucky “ace” boxers to pitch to us. Roberts got a bunch of hits, Wieters got two, I’m not that worried about Nick’s future numbers but his current slump makes me sad as does the overall team slump.

I think this is who Guthrie is now and I’m OK with that. He’s not an ace, never was, I still like him on this team and he is capable of pitching much better if he’d stop with the dingers. If we were a good team we might win this game but we’re a bad team so we lose these games and none of that is surprising.

 We had some chances, we got some hits but we can’t put enough hits together and score runs which, frankly, should happen.

I’ll be upset when Garret inevitably shuts us out tonight though.

I didn’t expect to get 7 hits off of him, I expected more like 3. See, the key to watching the O’s are tempered expectations.

However, I expect fireworks against Olson tonight.