- I have no idea what to make of last night’s game. Thank goodness Matt Clement seems healthy. And boy does it suck that Trot most likely is not. So what now? Schilling back to the rotation while Clement works his way back? Kapler the everyday RF? Millar the everyday RF and the third best hitter in the organization, Roberto Petagine, finally up to play 1st? Talk about good news-bad news! Maybe they can beg Kansas City for Chip Ambres back. Seen what he’s done so far? Not against chumps either - Sabathia and Buehrle, among others.

- Johnny Damon supplied perhaps the most enjoyable 3-minute stretch of regular-season-baseball-watching I have ever experienced. “The Catch” for the final out of the bottom of the ninth and a first-pitch home run to lead off the tenth? You kidding me? It was my first yelp aloud while alone in front of the TV all season.

- At what point if you’re Dale Sveum do you just pack it in? If you are that bad at your job, that has to wear on you, no? Imagine you wake up everyday knowing that you suck at whatever it is you are paid to do. What a joke sending Olerud last night.

- So you’re Theo. Trot is probably out for a while and who knows what you are going to get from Clement? Schilling has been shaky when healthy at all and certainly you can’t count on Keith Foulke for much this year. The trade deadline is Sunday. At what point do you say, “you know what, I am not going to mortgage the future just to give it a crack this year with a team that has had a bunch of unforseeable shit happen to it. Sometimes you just can’t patch up every hole but if we get it done with what we got, great.” My hope? That Theo becomes a “seller” and “packs it in” by moving Mueller and Millar and sliding Youkilis and Petagine into the lineup. I know it would be painful to “give up” like that but these are the decisions a GM has to make.

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