Praxis

Only disagree on one thing: It all went wrong on December 15, 2009.

No-one does. Not even their own fans apparently.

Somebody gif that howler and Pompey missing the fly ball that cost us two runs the other night please.

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Hit home runs? Just not against them.

Why can't TB just move to Montreal already? At least then I'd feel less s***** about constantly losing to the f***ers.

Amazing how Edwin looks so lost in April. By June he'll be pushing for MVP again...

Quite the Smörgåsbord of ex-Blue Jays pitching today: DeSclafani, Wojciechowski, Morrow.

I'd like to thank Gibby for glaringly incorrect managerial decisions tonight, the players for consistently and constantly f***ing up against Tampa Bay and most of all AA for utterly failing to address the most obvious weakness on the team (i.e. bullpen and closer role) for the entire offseason. Plenty of blame to go around tonight and this is exhibit A as to why we will go 22 years without making the playoffs.

Way ahead of you. Just watching Cleveland destroy Detroit and moving over to MIA/WAS and MIL/STL next.

He was trying to get used to a new catcher.....oh wait....

Martin is a superb framer and an excellent defensive catcher who seems to work very well with younger pitchers and veterans alike. 15 games is still a tiny sample size, but it seems clear that to this point when Martin catches Dickey it throws him off for the whole game and many Dickey pitches that should be called strikes are not due to the difficulty of catching the damn thing. How it seems to impact Martin afterwards has also been much commented on, but I have to think that to some extent it may also be throwing off his timing when it comes to hitting as well; I never expected Martin to hit up to last years numbers, but so far this year it has been a struggle for him and I think it may well be related to some extent to the Dickey effect as well. Martin is a true professional who seems to take great pride in his craft and would catch anybody if asked, but it simply makes sense to bring up Thole for Dickey at this point and remove Navarro from this team for good. We cannot keep asking the team to pay the price for AA refusing to accept that he can't get anything of substance for Navarro; just move him on already.

Brandon Morrow pitching competently so far for San Diego - 7 straight sat down, 3 scoreless innings and hit 95mph at one point.

DeSclafani line for tonight; 8 IP, 90 pitches, 2 hits, 0 ER, 0.86 ERA, 5 SO, 1 BB. You may soon be the only one.

DeSclafani pitching a 6 inning gem so far for Cincinnati. *Sigh* *Florida trade*

What does Zaun mean forget about baseball tomorrow? We haven't thought about it all f***ing day today.

Well, at least this will be over quickly.

Must. Score. Runs. Lower. Order. s***.

Well, I didn't see that lacklustre inning coming.

I'm almost afraid to ask who's left on the bench to possibly PH here.

Pompey, Goins and Tolleson. Hmm. Wait until the 8th?

Pillar next up. Tied game? Or not.

C'mon smoak - RBI please.

Yes!!!! There we go!

Time for Russell to earn some of his contract - home run, here we go......