Rockies 8-1 in July and now 1 game out of first place in the west. SD again tomorrow to reach first place and the best first half in Colorado history.
This week was the first time all season that the Rockies have had their five man rotation and closer in action all season. Tulowitski and Helton are not being missed, although I will be happy to see Tulo back. Helton is having a terrible season.
Vazquez has a no hitter through 6 over Seattle. Except the official scorer scored an error as a hit.
Minnesota Twits are fading fast.
The Reds have to stop giving me gray hairs! 3 straight losses to the Phils, all three on walk-off hits by the Phillies in extra innings…
Christ!
Poor Javy. He gives up three hits and no runs in seven innings, only to have Joba blow the game by serving up a grand slam.
Chicago Sox won 20 out of last 25. It can not last but they have made a huge move passing up the Twins.
Swept by the Phils. Goddamn those were some good games pitching-wise.
Lost 4-3 in the 12th inning
Lost 9-7 in the 10th inning after having a 7-1 lead going into the 9th (!!!)
Lost 1-0 in the 11th inning after rookie pitcher Travis Wood carried a no-hitter into the top of the 9th inning (!!!)
Lost 1-0 today in regulation innings.
Where did our bats go? Jeez.
And St Louis beat Houston, now our lead is only 1.5 games.
Baseball legend Bob Sheppard passed away today at age 99. He served as the voice of Yankee Stadium from 1951 until its final year 2008. The few times I have been to the new stadium, his voice was the main thing missing compared to the old. He was also the Stadium announcer in Giant Stadium for many decades.
The Padres won today, guaranteeing that they go into the All-Star Break with a two-game lead in the West, and the second-best record in the NL. I doubt many people would have predicted that back in March.
The Orioles just finished a 4-game sweep of the Rangers, which leaves me with mixed feelings. It’s good to see the Birds string a few wins together, but i would actually quite like Texas to win the AL West.
Sorry to hear that. The Voice of God booming “NOW BATTING FOR THE YANKEES…” was always part of the character of the Stadium.
Last game of the first half of the season has the Dodgers shutting out the Cubs 7-0 to stay 2 back of San Diego. Padilla pitches 8 innings and only hits one batter! 
Just got home from that game. Took a Cubs fan with me just to make it all the sweeter. 
Now we slog through the longest three days of the season, with no ML baseball being played.
Ti hijack my own thread while we wait for meaningful play to resume: If you were suddenly granted the power to change anything about MLB you wanted, what would you change and why?
My little list:
Houston gets shifted from the NL Central to the AL West. 3 X 5 balance for both leagues.
Kill the DH forever.
Limit inter-league play to no more than 7 games a season per team.
Move the All-Star game to after the World Series. Turn it back into the meaningless sham it’s supposed to be. Home field advantage in the series goes to the team with the best record in regular season play.
Find the guy that first came up with the DH. Kill him. If he’s already dead, dig up his grave and behead his corpse.
Institute serious salary caps that fuck the Yankees and the Red Sox hard-core. No more buying a team. You have to grow your own.
Find someplace for the Blue Jays to play that isn’t Canada. San Juan, maybe.
If you don’t have much interleague play, but you have an odd number of teams in each league, how are you going to construct a schedule that works? Unless there’s interleague play every day your odd-team system requires one team be off every day.
Over my dead body.
Rest in Peace, Bob Sheppard…Sheppard…Sheppard
And that’s not even the most challenging part.
If it were just a matter of one team off every day, that would probably be doable. But what it would also require is a dramatic reworking of the schedule, because under the current system, where teams generally play three-game sets against one another, you’d have two options:
or
I guess one possibility, in order to make (1), above, feasible, would be to either lengthen the regular season (bad move) or reduce the number of games (probably unpopular with fans, owners, and TV stations), in order to allow each team the required number of three-day breaks over the course of the season.
Why would it be so bad if there were one interleague game every day? What harm does it do? If I’m watching the Jays play the Red Sox, I don’t really care if the Yankees are playing the Devil Rays, the Indians, or the Nationals. I care about whether or not they win their game, but why does the opponent matter?
Because silenus, to whom he was responding, was advocating less interleague play rather than more, and at the same time equalizing the leagues at 15 teams apiece.
My wish list is simple:
Tell all the sports commentators, talk radio, and podcasts hosts to quit bitching about the All Star game giving home field advantage. I really don’t care if home field advantage is settled by the All Star game, alternating years, or asking the Oracle at Delphi. Seriously, the level of bitch fest over “This time it means something” is worse than listening to whining about the BCS.
I could care less about the home run derby. I came last night and watched the 1980 Stanley Cup final on the NHL Network rather than the home run derby. I hear David Ortiz won. Now I’ll have to drop him from my fantasy team since there is a ‘jinx’
So, who’s going to be traded in the next month or so? Cliff Lee, for certain. Corey Hart’s name came up as a move to Tampa. Anyone else? The big prize was going to be Adrian Gonzalez this year, but the Padres decided to actually play some ball, so that’s looking unlikely. Anyone else?