Good ol' Mike Heika, there to help save an otherwise BORING Monday morning at the office.  Apparently, Mo and Mo will get the chance to have Jere Lehtinen on their right side starting in Vancouver.  And what do you know... 6-8 weeks will look more like 4-6 weeks for Brad Richards!!!  Only obstacle for Richards will be learning how to shoot with an immobilizer on his wrist.  I'm sure the conditioning isn't there yet, but you don't play hockey for this long and have been able to skate with the team for almost 3 straight weeks and get to couch potato status.

This makes the pants a little happier knowing that Begin can now become a situational pain in the arse and Sutherby can go LW with Neal RW on a Richards Sandwich Line.  Heck, maybe get Richards between Neal and Brunnstrom and have the instigating line of Barch, Sutherby and Conner/Begin.

I like the way this is shaping up gentlemen.

Linkie

Anyone else notice "Lone Star Ball - All Jake Peavy Trade Talk, All The Time" on the name bar?

AJM... what's up with that?

I still think that trading Laird to KC for Cortes and Lisson is the way to go, sure we'll have to face him a few times a year - but with a new infield coach, we should be able to field bunts from him pretty clean.

That makes 75 words eh?

Sad that Brandon Puffer is the major suspect in this.

By no means is it an excuse for such instances to occur, but at a game a couple of weeks ago, it seemed that the bullpen location was an open invitation for "groupies" to openly "flirt" or "mingle" with these ballplayers.  Not that it was an inevitability, but you wonder just how often propositions are made that are followed up on.  It'd be interesting to hear BGL's take on the happenings in the Frisco bullpen as I'm sure he's taken in a few games there.  Too bad we still have the embargo.

Burglary of a Habitation with intent to commit felony 

First a disclaimer, I am by no means a professional judge of talent or execution.

That said... This was my first time seeing Feliz pitch.  Not sure if it is arm fatigue due to increased innings or if he was just anxious, but there seemed to be way too many pitches that "sailed."  His change up did appear to be up to par, Texas League quality at least.  I do believe the ump was squeezing a bit, but that can also be attributed to sitting down the 3rd base line without a great vantage point.

Whittleman did exhibit great patience at the plate, almost to a fault.  It appeared as though he let some quality pitches go without lifting the bat.  Looked just fine in the field.  One play early on did seem odd as he let Feliz go for a grounder on a soft grounder down the line where Feliz had to eat the ball.  More advanced 3B will call the pitcher off as they have their momentum carrying them towards the play.  It will come to him I'm sure.

Overall, boring game.  Andrus has INCREDIBLE range at SS, much more so than we are accustomed to seeing in Arlington night in and night out.  I cannot wait to see him in the bigs at the end of next summer.  I would like to see him in OKC first thing next year though, CC did not challenge his arm at all, most throws to 1B were "rainbows." 

They must do something with the presentation at Dr. Pepper Ballpark as the video board had the same AVG./HR/RBI for everyone, it must have gotten stuck on the first batter for CC.

Anyone else getting hammered with the rain?  I just looked out my office window (after seeing that we are getting "light rain with thunder" per weather.com) and it looks like Fay has made her way to southern Collin County.

I can't believe it's August 20 and the forecasted high is 80.  I loved seeing city operated sprinklers going off this morning on my way to work in a downpour.  It's going to be fun next month with the unbearable crickets and mosquitos.