wow what a game last night! Decided not to watch it as want to watch livan hernandez start tonight, but got up at 4am and computer was on so checked it out, 1-1 top of the 9th, ok i think to myself i’ll leave this on in bed. promptly fell asleep. alarm woke me up for work this morning and i hear baseball. astonishment reigns the game is still 1-1 three hours later in the 17th! I ate my breakfast watching Gonzalez dribble one to center, a most agreeable breakfast indeed.

Think Cruz was the right guy to go to the pen, he is the better pitcher but he can help out of the pen, I just can’t see Vargas helping anyone out of the pen.

Anyone know what / who we’re potentially asking the mets for in return for Green?

Livan Hernandez. Probably the best trade available – wasn’t too expensive (although giving away pitching prospects when we’re light in major league pitching and over-heavy in minor league hitting should probably raise the odd question – they weren’t top tier pitching prospects from what I understand, I’ve got a funny gut feeling that Chico will be a good major leaguer in the future though). Hernandez does nicely fill the Webb – Rest gap and having him next year as well is a good thing. He can hopefully shepherd some youngsters for the year and a bit that he’s here. Failing that if he finished strong he could be traded at highish value in the off-season.

If Owings makes it to the majors next year and Webb continues to knock those runners in we could have the best hitting pitchers in baseball next year.  You have to work towards something!

Would Byrnes and Hernandez be enough to trade for a top pitcher? Surely it would…

a nice victory on sunday evening.

did anyone else notice how many 3-1 counts Webb got himself into on monday? he seemed to be in them every batter. good to win without your best stuff though.

I’m going to be really interested in who we go after in the off-season. It goes without saying that we need at least one, probably two starting pitchers before we can challenge for the World Series. OK, so Green may get traded for one in August, but the off-season worries me. There’s such a hot market for quality starters prices go up and up and up and Russ Ortiz gets signed for $8m a year. I feel that trading Shawn Green for a starter makes more sense if a good deal can be found

Glad I decided not to get up for Vargas start last night. Think I’ll watch Enrique tonight, 1.05am is quite good, a little sleep before, a little sleep after, perfect!