- BAL was 18-7 early this season. That seems so long ago, as the Panthers dropped 15 straight before winning their final game v PAR Sunday night. BAL has scored the 7th most runs but have the 5th worst ERA (4.94), in which most of the embarrassing performances are coming from the bullpen. Among the starters though, LHP Oliver Perez has just 2 QS in 8 opportunities.
- TAI continued their strategy of "Winning? Not interested, thanks" after dealing RP F Rodney (3.27 ERA)to ATL in a multi-player swap. After the trade was announced, SP R Mexico went ballistic in the dressing room. "Let's face it, we're a farm team. We'll draft guys and when they develop, trade them to a real team. I know I'll be out of here too - if they don't trade me I'll walk at the end of the year. We should change our team colors to all-white 'cause from management on down, we just @#*%ing surrender."
- The Nick Swisher experiment has ended in BED. After going 2-7 with a double and HR in three games v CHNG, GM Rich Gin traded their big free-agent signing to SCO for AAA 3B R Zimmerman. Zimmerman was hitting .312 in Stockholm while Swisher was hitting .250 with 5 HR for the Crunch.
- At 15-25, ATL is 12.5 back of red hot SJ. SJ is 17-2 in their last 19 buy GM J Masters of the Flyers isn't backing down. Sources inside the Flyers head office say Masters is going ahead with plans to print tickets for not just the playoffs but the World Series as well. "We think it's premature but he's confident in his team. He's dug himself a hole ... but with Zambrano getting his ERA down (4.11 ed) he thinks we're a lock. If we disagree with him in private or in public, he sacks us."
- In HAL's 2 game sweep of ATL before sweeping doormat TAI, the Sailors lost 2B (and RHOY favourite) for 4-6 months. Reporters couldn't get GM Lars Cain to comment but did hear constant sobbing coming from the GM's office.
- KYO's 2 big free agent signings aren't faring too well. RF J Reed (8M per) is hitting just .234 with a .649 OPS on a team that needs him desperately to provide offense. And 35 year-old SP J Peavy has a 5.80 ERA with 74 baserunners in 50 IP.
- Preseason favourite LON was the latest victim of SJ and has now lost 5 straight. After winning 97 games last year and adding RF D Young, the Knights are now last in the Euro, 6 games back of SCO.
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In a retort to the tabloid-like journalism of the HSH crew, GM Jim Masters had this to say.
"Yes - I have mentioned to the outsourced cleaning crew that remarks made as representing company policy can be a termination offense. Perhaps if the HSH crew used more reliable sources, these types of allegations could be avoided.
That said, Yes, I still believe that we have a championship caliber team. This is a long season, and is far from being over.
Trust me, If I didn't think we could win, no way does our first round amateur pick walk out the door!"
Outsourced cleaning crew? Sounds like undocumented workers to me. And no, that's not who I used as my source. Perhaps you should stop using them to run your team though.
"The Flyer organization fully supports all policies and regulations that are insituted to manage the immigration process. We would never knowingly hire a company that does not share the same interests or values.
That said, the Flyer organization also enters into all business opportunities with a air of trust. We trust our business partners to be ethical, supportive, and focused on it's role in the community.
We think it is shoddy journalism to suggest otherwise, or cast subversion upon a company without proper supporting evidence. If such evidence does exist, we recommend that all such documents be forwarded to the proper authority and not aired for the sole value of increased circulation, to an otherwise worthless commodity."
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