Another year of pitching holding us down? Sweet!

Got a question for you guys.

I was watching a show on PBS about baseball you all should check it out it's great BTW. Anyway like 100 years ago an owner played a midget to entertain fans and drive up attendance. His 1 at bat he got on base because him being a midget he had a really small strike zone (I believe it was 1 inch). So what would stop a team from playing a midget?

I was sitting next to a bunch of Tiger fans today. (Detroit trains in Florida, but I guess they wanted to see the cactus league this year) They were all marveling at our lineup and all the home runs we launched today against the Brewers, but I assured them that we weren't going to catch them this year unless our starting pitchers step up in a big way.

Our bullpen ought to be solid, but it'll be difficult to hand them a lead on a regular basis without scoring 6 or 7 runs.

Eddie something I believe his name was?

We had David Howard and he failed.

The "good" news I guess is we should be able to score 6 or 7 runs a lot. But yeah... lets go get Oswalt.

Many of the captions were not funny. The ones that were.....outstanding. "Catcher Face".

Wait, what? I thought Duffy was having a good Spring Training? Now he's maybe going down?

Without looking it up I want to say Eddie Gadell/Guidel/Gidell.... the midget.

Well, maybe not, because I'm not sure who our #5 would be if Aaron Crow is off the table.

Chen
Hochevar
Sanchez
Paulino
Mendoza

Well, this is the only baseball thread going, so... It looks like the group including Magic Johnson just bought the Dodgers.

http://news.yahoo.com/dodgers-reach-...7072--mlb.html

Most of the talk that I've heard suggests that Paulino and Mendoza are competing for the final spot in the rotation. In fact, I was under the impression that Duffy had a spot locked up.

Admittedly, I follow Spring Training very, very loosely. I'll lock in next week.

I'm the same way. alnorth would know better than me probably being there. I just read the team website. I hadn't seen anything bad about Duffy on there though fwiw... which may be nothing.

I would be kinda pissed that duffy isn't in the lineup but Mendoza has made a seriously bid for a spot this spring

Oh hell, I forgot Mendoza, and I even saw him pitch a couple times. He's been looking good this spring.