SECTION 331

I’m just going to have to cop to the fact that I was too busy at work today to be able to take notes or even pay much attention. I didn’t even know that the Ms had been outhitting Chicago, as I kept getting dragged away from the game, because, well, I’m at work. All this game accomplished – besides making me nervous for a good two hours – was solidifying my hate love of AJ Pierzynski (shhh! Can you smell that? It’s sarcasm!).

There are very few baseball players that I harbor a grudge against one way or another, but there are a very small handful that I simply don’t like, and I have no idea why – they just set off my internal sirens and flashing red lights for some reason. Pierzynski is right at the top of that list, along with Gerald Laird…actually, they might be the only two that do that, with the exception of pretty much everyone on the Yankees, but I don’t really count that, because that’s more a West coast/East coast thing for me, rather than any real sense of “Ew“. Pierzynski could knit sweaters for orphaned kittens in his spare time, and he’d still set off that radar. I don’t know what it is.

I’ve been noticing that there are bullpen guys Wak will use when we are winning, and ones he’ll use when we’re not. Winning pitchers: Corky, White, Aardsma. Losing pitchers: Lowe, Batista. Shawn Kelley could go either way. Either this says that Wak wants to give Lowe, Batista, and Kelley (for the sake of argument) the practice in tight situations, or it says  that we’re going to lose because our offense isn’t up to par, so why not put those guys in…or maybe it says nothing at all, and I’m being a jerk. It took me a bit to hit on this, but I realized that it seems that Lowe and Batista have only come into games that we’re losing, which is why we haven’t seen a whole lot of them recently. Am I crazy, or am I just focusing too much on losses?

Also, losing to a guy with an ERA over 5 is just embarrassing, especially when Bedard’s tops out at just over 2. Oh well; I have my Rainiers game tomorrow night, and I’m going to see Washburn’s start on Saturday with a friend, and the A’s are coming to town, so maybe there is a chance for redemption this weekend. I’m trying to take it one series at a time. White Sox take this one today, 3-6. Kittens everywhere rejoice.