Record: 46-59. Pace: 71-91. Change on last season: -7.

On a day when Citi Field ticket takers distributed promotional orange t-shirts to an optimistic crowd gathering for an early game, fans headed home hours later seeing red, due to a brilliantly efficient complete game victory by Jon Garland.  The righty's 106 pitches, 76 strikes, and just two runs on six hits gave the Diamondbacks their 46th win while pushing the Mets 7.5 games behind the Rockies as their bid for a postseason wildcard berth continues its brisk march toward improbability. 

If this is how two and a half hour rain delays impact Jon Garland, then let's do what we can to ensure his next several starts are all in the Pacific Northwest.  Garland, who didn't need to strike out a batter until the sixth (he managed only two Ks the entire game) was aided by two double plays (courtesy of David Wright each time), started 67 percent of batters facing him with a strike, and into the sixth (when I stopped counting) had only allowed more than 2 balls on any single batter four times.  In short, absolutely efficient domination.

More after the jump.

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One thing is clear about the Snakepit, we have a scary willingness to threaten the livlihood of adorable animals in order to get our offense going.  Sadly due to our offense having no soul, many furry creatures have died as a result. 

A second thing is clear though as well - and this is the reason I am writing.  A huge chunk of the readers here live outside of Arizona and follow our team largely through this blog.

I think it goes without saying, the D-Backs aren't one of those teams that has huge chunks of fans all over the country.  We aren't the Yankees, or the Cubs, or the Red Sox where you could roll into any ball park in the country and find a few supporters of your team in attendance.  In fact, since moving to Nashville I have not seen a single D-back fan ... and I even went to a Reno Aces game!

My point:  We can probably fix this - sorta.

I want to travel to see our boys.  Drive up to Cincinnati for a game.  Head up to St. Louis.  But, and no disrespect to my friends who live in those areas (or even here) ... I want a freaking D-Backs fan to be there to enjoy it with me!  Especially since this year the prospects for a win are slim anyway!

I'm sure I'm not the only person in this boat.  Right?

So - an experiment.  Let's use this thread to post road games (or even series) people are interested in going to.  One comment per game or series, and allow people to have a bunch of mini discussions to see if we can't put together a few road trip snake pit games in random places.  Heck, I'll bring the giant poster of St. Penelope of the Cross in case of emergency.

UPDATE: If you want to go see any of our minor affiliates, you shoudl list them here too.

This is my first attempt at a recap, it is hard work.  Please forgive any errors, poor writing, or cynicism.  Hope you find it enjoyable nonetheless - Wactivist

Reno Aces - 0 (13-19) L, Billy Buckner, 4.91, 1-2

Nashville Sounds - 5 (18-15) W, Mike Burns, 2.27, 5-0

Let me just start by saying that I think I now know why we keep pulling people up from AA instead of from AAA.  Our boys in Reno just aren't that good.  Or, well maybe since we keep pulling all our talent up from Mobile nobody gets a chance in Reno. Chicken or egg, this is the impression I got after watching nine horrible innings against my current hometown Nashville Sounds.  I left glad to have seen some baseball, but demoralized that the diamond(back) in the rough I was looking for with my amateur snakepit eyes ... just wasn't there.

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I was late to work when I saw the interview Jim did with Brynes and figured what the hell, I'll see if I can't pull it up on my phone and deal with the weird formatting ... better than waiting.

Turns out, at some point in the recent past, SB Nation added a mobile version!

Maybe this is old news - and if it is, I apologize.  But for the rest of you - check it out!