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Swinging on 3-0, Rickie? Really? Good pitch to hit but it's not like he's been on fire lately..

I turned away when I thought he was going to toss it in the stands. He tucked it? That's great.. the hell with those fans.

Do you have a GIF for that?

Lucroy's injury is to his right hand, not the glove hand. So yes, it would hurt after every pitch, but that's not the case in this situation.

Most people are embarrassed when they can't control their anger and they lash out and punch something. A friend of mine broke his hand, and rather than tell the truth he said he hurt it snorkeling (he was living in Japan at the time). It happens. I am not surprised at all by the story, but if it's truly a boxer's fracture, then he was making a fist at about the exact same time the suitcase came down and hit his hand. Resulting in an injury you see 99/100 times when someone punches a very hard object. Maybe a suitcase really did hit his hand, but it's not unreasonable to think that this story is a coverup and his wife is taking some of the blame so that he doesn't feel as silly if he would say "I was frustrated by ____________ and punched the hotel room door." Not to mention, he'd be going on the DL as the hottest hitter on the team and might feel some backlash from brass/fans for punching whatever it is he admitted to. That's the last thing I will say on the subject. Bottom line is that he's on the DL and this further hurts the team.

He's still striking out all the time. Plus, he still isn't swinging at the first pitch fastball right down the middle. That doesn't mean he needs to be sat on the bench so he can further think about why he's struggling. There aren't any better options, Rickie is either going to need to hit his way out of this slump or have an 2011 Adam Dunn type season. We're just going to have to endure it and take the 2012 season on the chin.

Didn't see your post...but obviously I agree. I think we need to sit Braun now for the sake of his health. This is ridiculous. I said yestserday that Braun should be sitting just because he clearly isn't healthy. There was a double hit over his head that Braun catches 9 times out of 10. Now I'm not saying that he's a good defender, but despite him not always getting a good read on the ball or mis-playing it, when he does get a beat on it, he can cover some ground. This ball bounced about a step and a half away from him before the track(or just on it, can't quite recall) and I thought watching Braun it was gone just the way he was jogging after it. Either after 5 years Braun has gotten lazy, or that achillies and or hamstring injury is sure hampering him right now. If it's the prior...I wouldn't mess with it. It'd be like Gallardo having a sore elbow. THAT SAID, I'm not as worried as I probably should be. Aram's hitting well, Aoki looks like Ichiro(please refrain, I'm using hyperbole, but he looks like a very good hitter) and Hart is hitting well. If Morgan can come around, Gomez is in a funk(otherwise known as his entire career, but if he can get back to TAKING that 1st pitch slider that you know is coming and that he did for 6 weeks) and Weeks can finally turn it around our offense could be alright. I keep dogging on Kottaras, and he's AWFUL defensively, but I just looked going into tonights game and his OBP was like .460 or something outrageous. If he can just go .220/.360/.420 I'll be happy. I'm also confident that Fiers will come through and pitch well. Not great, but 6 2/3 4 ER's type well...well enough that he can help get our rotation stabilized. Nothing's really changed from last years rotation to this years. They're actually looking good. Edit-Good god I just went back and counted the "If's," in my optimistic outlook. Ok, start calling teams. Greinke, Hart, Marcum, Wolf, Morgan....short of a 8-2 run which we need with these guys OUT or banged up...we're going to be a seller. And good GOD I hope I'm wrong about Profar and those I've debated with are right and he can be had for Greinke. Braun is not going to sit. He's going to play at whatever percent healthy he is - you don't sit your best player. If he needs to sit he can go on the disabled list.

Boxer's fracture is otherwise known as punching a wall fracture. I've known several people that have been diagnosed with that and it's been from punching a wall. Not saying that's what it is, but that type of fracture occurs when the last knuckle is pushed back - usually from the force of a punch. I doubt the suitcase did it but whatever..

Still working for me..

Good outting for Marcum.

The injuries in all of MLB this year are rather stunning. Every day it seems as though another pitcher is on the DL with problems, or position player. I've noticed it more with pitchers this year.

Why do I feel like that sort of play - the Abreu sliding catch - would have resulted in no less than two injuries to our players, while the ball was dropped.

You know times are rough when you're saying that after the 1st inning.

Marcum better be perfect from here on out..

Sure..sure..

How do you know he needs a mental break? For all you know he feels great at the plate and just isn't getting the results.. it happens. He looks 10x better at the plate than he did a week ago already. (Hard to get much worse)

I absolutely could NOT stand Daron Sutton, I guess I still can't stand him. I'm usually not one to argue and moan about commentators, but he was so bad. The overly dramatic things he said, the cheesy stuff like what was listed above, .. it all just drove me nuts.

I cannot believe that someone gets that annoyed over a manager, especially some of the trivial stuff like the manager "looking like he doesn't care" while he watches the game. If it makes you feel better.. keep venting, but I don't think RR is going anywhere for quite some time. Watch other teams - managers make questionable moves every day. Question the personnel on the team if anything, in my opinion. Edit - I don't mean the players themselves, but why certain players are on the team. The manager can only play the guys on the 25 man... just sayin..

I thought he was safe at 2nd.

Not much reaction - from what I can tell.

I figure LA will be the worst since Braun beat out Kemp for MVP.

99% of the time that IS the case.

It looked like Aoki didn't realize there was only 1 out there.. did anyone else notice that?

He roped that thing.. good take on 1-1, too.

2-0 felt like a big deficit to me.. 4-0.. whew.. this will be tough.