Heh. The Google Ads I’m seeing are “Positive Thinking Tips,” “Positive Attitude Test,” and “Things Not To Say At Work.”
You guys really didn’t even deserve Thursday and Friday night’s win, and Manny’s hot (as is Matt Kemp). I smell trouble for the D-Backs.
Not that I think Manny is going to be on fire quite like this for the remainder of the season, but he has certainly had an impact on the club’s outlook, and I expect the offense in general will pick it up.
The schedule is in the D-backs favor for the next few series. The Pirates, Braves, Rockies, Astros, and Padres are up next.
The Dodgers have the Cardinals, Giants, Phillies, Brewers, and the Rockies.
I know which teams I’d rather face!
Just to add a sad note:
Skip Caray, long time announcer for the Braves and son of Harry Caray of course died last night in his sleep at age 68. He was a Braves broadcaster since 1976 and his sons Chip and Josh are both announcers too.
Wow, that’s too bad. It’s crazy to see that these people that were the voices of their respective generations are now passing on. I’m amazed that Bob Shepard is still going honestly.
Just barely, I was sad he could not make it for the All Star game or the Old Timers day. He must be in very poor condition if he could not at make it to the Old Timers day as a special guest.
He was much better than his father, and I remember his voice fondly from the times I watched the Braves playing on TBS. His son, Chip, is a very good announcer; the Cubs were badly served by the disagreement that arose between them and Chip that resulted in Chip heading to the Braves.
RIP, Skip.
Sad news indeed. RIP Skip.
There are those of us in Dodger Nation who are very frightened to think about the day when Vin Scully is no longer among us. It was disturbing when he started cutting back his schedule last season to only do West Coast games, but you can hardly blame him. The man’s 80.
At least Ernie Harwell is alive and with us.
And next year he’s only going to do home games. We really need to get human cloning perfected fast, because Vin is a National Treasure.
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I hadn’t heard that! At least I actually like the other Dodger announcers. When Chick Hearn died, I stopped listening to Laker games because I couldn’t stand anyone else they hired.
Ah, the final sign of the apocalypse. 
Well, the Cardinals are starting to sputter, dropping the last two to the Phils. We get a day off today and then have the Dodgers. Let’s hope Manny requires a few games before he figures out the NL.
An interesting thing to watch is A’s rookie Brad Zeigler. He’s now pitched 34 innings.
He’s given up exactly zero runs.
That is a major league record for the best start to a career, as you might have guessed.
My Reds have given up the ghost, so I’m going to root for my division and especially the hard-luck Cubs. They need to shake that “lovable loser” moniker and go on ahead and get a WS ring. If not this year then I don’t know when for them, they are as talented a bunch of players as they’ve ever had.
So, with reluctant enthusiasm, I too, say go Cubbies!
The D-backs are doing exactly what they need to do during their easier schedule: Win!
They can put some games between them and the Dodgers and be able to have some breathing room going into September.
Tiger relief pitching is trying to kill him.
There is nothing of importance going on in the Pirates game right now. I don’t know why I’m mentioning it.
If he keeps it up by the time we start voting for pitchers in the SDMB Hall of Fame, he’s on my list. 
Except for the D-backs have the tying run coming up to bat. 
I’m sorry; what was that you were saying?