From (Suddenly Sunny) Coors Field

is playing belliard really going to help his trade chances?

This could be ugly tonite Stammen might get lit up Rockies a threat to overtake Giant's for the wild card spot although in the NL.

I think CHarlan reads w-a-a-y-y too much into this; Belliard is 3-5 against Marquis since 2004; Manny's just going with a hot hitter (playing another hunch). If he was just playing historic numbers, Kearns would be in the lineup as well (.438BA, 2HR, 4RBI).

with the men of their statues - dunn and willingham - playing the corners, morgan should be allowed to use a bike tonight to cover that big outfield.

Meanwhile, Syracuse continues to drive toward 1st place in its division.

@periculum: SYR may get there, but the odds are that they will probably fall short (solid SP, uninspiring hitting, unstable bullpen, and soft fielding), imo. Padilla is the only hitter above .300 on the roster (w/five errors in the OF), and S.Bynum has 14 errors in 73 games.

Martin is having a career year, and could get a late-season selection to the big club; Balester & Mock are already on the 40-man & could come up as well, along with Martis, if he can find the strike zone again.

okay, I only JUST signed up for twitter last friday and I'm already seeing that twitter is EXACTLY the same thing that we do here.

And if you find yourself scrolling through wordy comments here, you'll actually be happy to know that on twitter, 1) you only follow people whose threads you WANT to read and 2) THEY'RE UNDER 140 WORDS.

So please, try it before you knock it. Especially if you're going to knock it in this forum, where you're posting more often than the twits who are tweeting.

(exhale) okay rant over.

Found someone you recommend we follow, NN? And who are you?

(Heh. THAT shut her up.)

Why is it on MLB gamecast that the newest guy, Nyjer, is shown with a Nats cap, but Bard is still shown with a San Diego cap and there isn't a picture of Stammen?

I'm NatsNut1. But I haven't said anything very interesting or clever yet. =)

Do I have too much time on my hands?

And if you find whoever took just plain old NatsNut, let me know so I can kick their ask. LOL

evidently we both do, Traveler8!

Does John Lannan have a nickname yet? I suggest "Big Game." He seems to step up for big games (ie. @ Yankee Stadium, vs Barry Bonds in '07, etc). I think John "Big Game" Lannan should be it. What do you guys think?

Aargh, that was a most annoying chain of events. We should be tied right now...

@big_game_lannan: Aren't you known as the "Long Island Express"?

Nice game by Stammen!!

Does anyone know if Smiley Gonzalez is going to play this year or is the club too humiliated?

Let's go Zimm..show them why you're an all-star!

I like it big game, but he steps up for little games too.

well...not wuite what I had in mind...but at least it wasn't a DP...Let's go Dunn!

bases loaded in the 7th and 8th...let's get a friggin' run, people!!!

balls...

Hello...(hello...hello...)

...anyone home?

What happened to the timely hitting?

Has Belliard GIDP every time he's come up this year with the bases loaded and less than 2 outs or does it just seem that way?

More brain lock by Manny why not bat for Beliard in the seventh, you've got Harris,Gonzo, and Hernandez and whada ya know the face of the franchise chokes again when was the last time he got a big hit?

I think maybe he should pitch in at least one big game before you start calling him that.

For the record, 100-loss teams don't play any big games.

"Does anyone know if Smiley Gonzalez is going to play this year or is the club too humiliated?"

Posted by: rjthrelkeld | July 6, 2009 10:28 PM

Gonzalez,now known as Carlos Alvarez, is playing for the Nationals Dominican summer league team

Well, that was poopy.

(I mean the end of the game, not Tom261's comment.)

...shame to waste Stammen's outing tonight. Let's get 'em tomorrow.

Jeepers, we get great pitching - give up 1 run, and we lose.

The good news is Stammen looked really good and went deep into the game.

This is one season where I just can't wait for the All-Star break.

Stammen: doesn't want to get shut down. Doesn't want to go back go to AAA.

Guzman: likes leading off hates driving in runs. (TRADE NOW before the average drops!!!)

"is playing belliard really going to help his trade chances?"

No. Playing (or not playing) a guy who has played in (ummm, wait, let me look this up...) 1338 games in his career is going to make absolutely zippo difference in what (if anything) you can trade him for. Anybody who wants him knows what he does by now.

NatsNut, I think that we may have to agree to disagree on this one. This blog has a meta-topic, and the comments/snark tend to revolve around that. Also, there is a back-and-forth here, which I gather is not necessarily the case with Twitter, which seems to be more along the lines of a monologue by design. I liked the take of one of the writers in the OP the other day, which was something to the effect that a twit tweets, "I'm walking across the street now." Then you read in the paper the next day that a pedestrian was hit by a bus while tweeting. The Internet has many benefits, but to me, Twitter is just another example of the web's potential for dumbing down the world, 140 characters at a time. Context is everything in communications, and Twitter does not allow much room, if any, for that. And now Twitter is popping up as a journalistic source. These kids today. Sigh. ;-)

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okay, I only JUST signed up for twitter last friday and I'm already seeing that twitter is EXACTLY the same thing that we do here.

And if you find yourself scrolling through wordy comments here, you'll actually be happy to know that on twitter, 1) you only follow people whose threads you WANT to read and 2) THEY'RE UNDER 140 WORDS.

So please, try it before you knock it. Especially if you're going to knock it in this forum, where you're posting more often than the twits who are tweeting.

(exhale) okay rant over.

Posted by: NatsNut | July 6, 2009 9:18 PM