Not sold on the Brewers without Fielder after seeing the stats for Ramirez, over the past three seasons, on the road (.246) and at Miller Park (.270) where rlsix of his homers from last season at Wrigley (.329) wouldn't have left Miller Park.rl I'm not sure how that will play out but he has defensive frailties which don't read too good either. Not insurmountable granted but I think it's enough for me to believe we're starting on an equal footing with the other preseason favourites.

Matt Latos debut today Caught the post-seventh innings stretch action from Tropicana last night and that was pretty good. Desmond Jennings rattling up the fantasy league points for me. Lost Farnsworth to the DL but other than that had a good start on the old pitching from Cueto, Wandy Rodriguez and Jamie Garcia. Top bananas.

Think I may start to watch some MLB this year. I don't really follow it, nor do I have a team, but since I am getting ESPN, I may aswell give it a go. I know a lot of people who really enjoy it and they have told me to try it.

Hope you enjoy it. I was never really a fan until I went over there to work. Went to a couple of games in Cincinnati and thought it was okay. It wasn't until I started to watch it about a month later when I was in Myrtle Beach that I got into the game as I started to learn about it. Having grown up loving the stats of cricket, baseball was perfect down to stats for left-handed batters (it's so much further on now it makes our analysis look prehistoric). It's perfectly paced for television and having a beer too (sports bar stuff). That was twenty years ago and I lost touch for a few years in the 90s when there was no internet (I used to occasionally buy USA Today to find out results and did tune in a few times to the Armed Forces Radio Network to try to catch a game). Last few years I've had MLB and it's been great watching whenever I wanted to watch.

If any of you are really into the game I can highly recommend rl[iBaseball[/i by Ken Burnsrl. It's a multi episode documentary that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about baseball up until the steroid era. It's a fascinating sporting documentary full of cultural insight and a real grasp of the beauty in a game which is competitive down to the most minute detail. If you love baseball too it's a must see. Lovefilm have it for rental if you use them. Don't know about Netflix sorry. Also if you go to the bay where pirates are to rent things you can find it there.

Two games into the season, two blown saves from Carlos Marmol. It's going to be a looooong season on the North side.

Woohoo! Walk off win that was lucky as hell. That man Bruce again. Two solo shots, the second to tie things up in the bottom of the ninth. Decent enough start two from three considering the expectations for the Marlins.

Rays sweep the Yankees

A win!!! And a closer who closed in Aceves!

1-3 wahoo!

Rays beat the Tigers 4-2

Rays beat the Red Sox 1-0

Phew! .500 through the month although really it should have been more. That said it could have been less but for a few heroics. Pitching has been pretty good this season, just the bats have only come alive sporadically. Seems like we're splitting every home series 2-1 and every road series 1-2. If we can get a couple of sweeps we should be good.

Mo done for the year tearing his ACL.

Split a two game series with the Cubs last night off the back of another comeback. Much needed.

Seeing as nobody has mentioned it, isn't it great to see the Orioles challenging even at this early stage? Camden Yards is one of the grounds that I'm going to go to when I win the lottery. It's one of those stadiums that's always looked great and is up there on my visit list with the likes of Wrigley Field and the two new New York stadiums. Double header today with Texas that I'm going to tune into I think.

It certainly is!!! I can't believe it's taken so long for the penny to drop that pitching wins ballgames. Over the last few years they've been no higher that 27th in the majors for team ERA and, surprise surprise, have been whipping boys. A new GM, new head coach and an improved pitching staff and the wins are clocking up. I don't think they're strong enough to be in contention at the end of the season but at this point I'll settle for a season above 500. It'll be interesting to see what they do in terms of trades if they still have a chance bit further down the road.



It's a great ballpark, been there a couple of times. Never been to Wrigley or any of the NY parks but went on a tour of Fenway, unfortunatly the Red Sox were on a road trip so didn't get to see a game there. Standing at the bottom of the green monster was pretty cool though.