Rox Talk

The Week That Was

A 2-4 week against the Astro and Pirates. The Roxs currently stand at 14-22. Ten and half games back from division leading Los Angeles in fourth place. Currently 7-10 at home and 7-12 on the road, the Roxs have matched its opponents 183-183 (expected wins is 18 versus historical wins at 16). On pace for 63 wins with 824 runs scored and 824 runs against.

Oh hum a pretty uneventful week.  I was hoping Helton would get his 2,000th hit and add some good news to this season but of course Hurdle has to sit him on Sunday with him sitting on 1,999. For God's sake man what are you doing...get him in the game let him get his hit! Oh well something to talk about next week.

Up down, up down what maddening inconsistency our Rox are showing this year.  No rhyme to reason for what is going to show up week to week.  Management has got to settle in on a everyday line up.  Through 36 games the Rox have had 33 different batting lineups.  Everyone says that having daily consistency helps a ball player so I can only imagine the frustrations especially with Atkins.  I mean Atkins looks like a rookie.  Can't play the field, can't hit, and the sad part is that if he was at least hitting he'd have some trade possibilities but at this point he isn't worth anything.  Throw in the fact the Holliday has fallen off the baseball offense world you can pretty much expect that our players; regardless of what they do, is worthless for any trades. The Rox just can't seem to win in any aspect of the game.

The Weekly Diamond

Very good piece by Rox Girl at Purplerow.com.  You know I kind of forgot about the whole GenR promo that got shoved down our throat for a couple of seasons.  You know management basically said screw it and let the kids play.  Well they got their chance and all in all they did make it to the World Series.  In sort of a bizarre Florida Marlin way we let them play and they proved their way to a NL pennant.  Only problem was the players were neither all that young or all that impressive and the team thought they could keep them around and make another run.  As Rox Girl says that core is done and needs to move along.  The problem I see is how does Management spin this one?  At least with the Marlins they make it pretty apparent when they have decided to jettison one era for the next.  Do Rox fans really want to see GenR redux?  Kind of frustrating to think we might have to wait another 2 - 3 years before we can become competitive again..

This is pretty cool...