Those are 5 wild cards of inconsistency and/or youth. Good luck with that rotation. All have the potential to be solid, all have the potential to blow up a game.

all right you twisted my arm…..I agree…...as i look around suspiciously like I stole money from an old person.

yeah, blalock for liriano… if we throw in bmac, hurley, lemon and salty… MAYBE….

if that is possible…hell yes. But it probably would cost us Blalock + one of our stud prospects + one of the young pitchers. And I do it!

Look at his recent numbers in triple AAA

But I doubt the Twins really want to trade Liriano even though he is upset with them for keeping him in AAA. If it is possible to pry Liriano away from Minnesota, we trade Blalock + Engel Beltre + Beavan/Main/Kiker. Not sure if that gets it done, but if it is does we have to do that in a heartbeat!

oh man. this has to be a bit. that last line is perfect

lbrooks is really randy galloway… or at the very least one of the granpa urine parrots

for some reason, I really like Hank and want him to have a successful career here or somewhere else. I would like for him to catch a good break for once.

Somehow I don’t see him sticking for the rest of the year.

It’ll be either JMJ or more Boggs, but somehow there’ll be less Murphy in 2008.

Who else would you have had play 1B at the beginning of the year? Broussard obviously sucked big time but at least we cut bait and didn’t keep him here simply because of his contract. I think the 1B situation was handled about as well as it could have been given our players. Davis was brought up once he was ready and now we are looking at the guy who will be manning that position for the next decade hopefully.

Who signed all those pitchers? Last I checked JD was the GM. And really only the Fukimori signing was questionable. Jennings on a low risk/high reward type deal, Ponson on a minor league deal are good signings. What it did was allow Hurley to continue working in the minors until he was ready. Obviously Jennings is no longer a factor since he is hurt again but what if he had regained his form from a couple years ago? Ponson, while being a headcase, was arguably our best pitcher when he was here. And again once his time was up, albeit this time for nonbaseball issues, we cut bait and let him go.

You say he had to be bullied into going with younger players but I don’t see where that applies. Please cite some examples of him being bullish on playing veterans over young guys. But dont say laird over Salty because Salty hasn’t performed and Laird has. Don’t say Byrd over Boggs because Byrds defensive value is far greater than Boggs’. Now his spot in the lineup could be lower thats I won’t argue with but Byrd should be playing over Boggs right now. And don’t give me Duran either because I think we all know he should be in OKC right now getting everyday playing time.

keeping Milton Bradley and Josh Hamilton, both extremely important cogs to this team that have had injury issues in the past, relatively healthy and extremely productive with his DH/RF/CF shifting of those two? How about finding the correct order to place the top 5 guys in, even without Hank for so long? And trusting on the rookies, whether he had them called up or JD did? How about winning some freakin’ baseball games, after such a dismal 9-18 start? Trusting in Harrison to finish the 7th in his first start?

look…Ron’s not perfect, and I question a lot of his decisions…but never really while they’re happening, so much as after the fact. The guy’s getting the job done…he’s getting the most out of his offense, improved the defense, protected his players’ health (not pitchers, but I don’t think he’s overworked them, which is pretty much all you can say for his impact on them), and he’s got this team believing and this city hyped about baseball again.

My hat goes off to the man, and I say he should certainly be considered a MOST VALUABLE PERSONALITY…not a most valuable player though, that’s for sure