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monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:I had a feeling that this series would be the turning point to a surprisingly successful season (up to that point) and it looks like it was. We needed to take 2 out of 3 at home from a not very good Rays team, and we just couldn't do it...not quite enough pitching. And the losing series led to us dropping two in a row to Houston with Santana and Berrios starting. The good news is we are still in first place by percentage points, but we face Houston's best prospect David Paulino today (he's a 6'7" nightmare), so after today we may be looking up the rest of the season. It was fun while it lasted...

Eh...did you have an ejection seat installed on the bandwagon? I'll start to be worried if they go on a long losing streak of 4 or more games. Teams go through a down turn even good teams. If they can salacage a game out of a series each time or win the next game up that could be enough till they come around.

Ha, I always had my finger on the bandwagon ejection button monster, even as I was enjoying the surprisingly good start! Even after the terrific Baltimore series, I had a premonition that the Rays' series was going to define the direction our season would go, and unfortunately early returns suggest I was right. We couldn't win an important series at home against a below average team, and it seems to have had a negative impact on our mojo...as evidenced by a disastrous sweep at the hands of the Astros.

Monster, you said you would start worrying when we got on a losing streak of 4 games or more. We're there now (and even worse, all at home), and we have Mejia and Gibson next up on the bump. Time to worry?

longstrangetrip wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:I had a feeling that this series would be the turning point to a surprisingly successful season (up to that point) and it looks like it was. We needed to take 2 out of 3 at home from a not very good Rays team, and we just couldn't do it...not quite enough pitching. And the losing series led to us dropping two in a row to Houston with Santana and Berrios starting. The good news is we are still in first place by percentage points, but we face Houston's best prospect David Paulino today (he's a 6'7" nightmare), so after today we may be looking up the rest of the season. It was fun while it lasted...

Eh...did you have an ejection seat installed on the bandwagon? I'll start to be worried if they go on a long losing streak of 4 or more games. Teams go through a down turn even good teams. If they can salacage a game out of a series each time or win the next game up that could be enough till they come around.

Ha, I always had my finger on the bandwagon ejection button monster, even as I was enjoying the surprisingly good start! Even after the terrific Baltimore series, I had a premonition that the Rays' series was going to define the direction our season would go, and unfortunately early returns suggest I was right. We couldn't win an important series at home against a below average team, and it seems to have had a negative impact on our mojo...as evidenced by a disastrous sweep at the hands of the Astros.

Monster, you said you would start worrying when we got on a losing streak of 4 games or more. We're there now (and even worse, all at home), and we have Mejia and Gibson next up on the bump. Time to worry?

It's up to you but it helped that Chicago Cleveland and KC all lost yesterday too. If one of the young guys they brought up are a worthwhile improvement in the Pen that could be a pretty significant deal for the season. Unfortunately it might not be very hard to be a lot better than Pressley which is a big disappointment for the season. Anyway let's see how this series goes. I'm not on the panic button yet.

monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:I had a feeling that this series would be the turning point to a surprisingly successful season (up to that point) and it looks like it was. We needed to take 2 out of 3 at home from a not very good Rays team, and we just couldn't do it...not quite enough pitching. And the losing series led to us dropping two in a row to Houston with Santana and Berrios starting. The good news is we are still in first place by percentage points, but we face Houston's best prospect David Paulino today (he's a 6'7" nightmare), so after today we may be looking up the rest of the season. It was fun while it lasted...

Eh...did you have an ejection seat installed on the bandwagon? I'll start to be worried if they go on a long losing streak of 4 or more games. Teams go through a down turn even good teams. If they can salacage a game out of a series each time or win the next game up that could be enough till they come around.

Ha, I always had my finger on the bandwagon ejection button monster, even as I was enjoying the surprisingly good start! Even after the terrific Baltimore series, I had a premonition that the Rays' series was going to define the direction our season would go, and unfortunately early returns suggest I was right. We couldn't win an important series at home against a below average team, and it seems to have had a negative impact on our mojo...as evidenced by a disastrous sweep at the hands of the Astros.

Monster, you said you would start worrying when we got on a losing streak of 4 games or more. We're there now (and even worse, all at home), and we have Mejia and Gibson next up on the bump. Time to worry?

It's up to you but it helped that Chicago Cleveland and KC all lost yesterday too. If one of the young guys they brought up are a worthwhile improvement in the Pen that could be a pretty significant deal for the season. Unfortunately it might not be very hard to be a lot better than Pressley which is a big disappointment for the season. Anyway let's see how this series goes. I'm not on the panic button yet.

That's good...hadn't seen that the Indians lost. We're still in first! And we caught a break with Trout going on the DL is we go to Anaheim.

Yeah, Pressley have been a big disappointment. I can't figure him out...it looks like he has good stuff, but his results are terrible. Nick Burdi could have really helped us with his 100MPH fastball if he hadn't gotten hurt...tough break. I just don't see many good options to help our bullpen the rest of the year.

longstrangetrip wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

longstrangetrip wrote:I had a feeling that this series would be the turning point to a surprisingly successful season (up to that point) and it looks like it was. We needed to take 2 out of 3 at home from a not very good Rays team, and we just couldn't do it...not quite enough pitching. And the losing series led to us dropping two in a row to Houston with Santana and Berrios starting. The good news is we are still in first place by percentage points, but we face Houston's best prospect David Paulino today (he's a 6'7" nightmare), so after today we may be looking up the rest of the season. It was fun while it lasted...

Eh...did you have an ejection seat installed on the bandwagon? I'll start to be worried if they go on a long losing streak of 4 or more games. Teams go through a down turn even good teams. If they can salacage a game out of a series each time or win the next game up that could be enough till they come around.

Ha, I always had my finger on the bandwagon ejection button monster, even as I was enjoying the surprisingly good start! Even after the terrific Baltimore series, I had a premonition that the Rays' series was going to define the direction our season would go, and unfortunately early returns suggest I was right. We couldn't win an important series at home against a below average team, and it seems to have had a negative impact on our mojo...as evidenced by a disastrous sweep at the hands of the Astros.

Monster, you said you would start worrying when we got on a losing streak of 4 games or more. We're there now (and even worse, all at home), and we have Mejia and Gibson next up on the bump. Time to worry?

It's up to you but it helped that Chicago Cleveland and KC all lost yesterday too. If one of the young guys they brought up are a worthwhile improvement in the Pen that could be a pretty significant deal for the season. Unfortunately it might not be very hard to be a lot better than Pressley which is a big disappointment for the season. Anyway let's see how this series goes. I'm not on the panic button yet.

That's good...hadn't seen that the Indians lost. We're still in first! And we caught a break with Trout going on the DL is we go to Anaheim.

Yeah, Pressley have been a big disappointment. I can't figure him out...it looks like he has good stuff, but his results are terrible. Nick Burdi could have really helped us with his 100MPH fastball if he hadn't gotten hurt...tough break. I just don't see many good options to help our bullpen the rest of the year.

The sad thing is imagine how bad it would be if we didn't have a guy like Breslow who isn't great but has been plenty decent. Gimenez has pitched 3 innings over 3 appearances and finally got hit hard but at least he got through an inning and that's more than Pressley and someone else was able to do. Yikes. lol

Look at the guys the Twins have replaced in the Pen while they have this first place run.

Tonkin 6+ era coin flip whether he was going to walk or Steiner out someone.

Pressley 8+ era

Players shuttled between AAA and the majors more often than my cat runs into the kitchen hoping for water or food.

It may not be hard to improve on those guys. If Something happened to Kinzler the season would probably be over. That's not because he is that awesome they just don't have anyone else I think could step into that role at this point. They don't really even have an 8th inning guy.

Next month will define this team

Angles 4 games
Seattle Two series
Giants for 3 games
Then Cleveland for 2 series
And chi sox between the Indians

23 game stretch that's need to finish out with 14-15+ wins and is very doable all these teams are sub .500 teams beside the Indians.