Lameball

-Tulo can't seem to find that middle part of the ball with the sweet part of his bat.
-Holliday is consistently going from consistent to inconsistent.
-Fuentes and Corpas can't seem to remember what their jobs are.
-Nix is gone (thank God?).
-Why are Barmes and Spilly not getting started in every game?
-Hawpe is asleep.
-Redman. (here comes a long rant). He is a piece of shit. He sucks, plain and simple. I watched Hurdle put him into a Padres game late last year for the first time and the man couldn't find the strikezone and then couldn't through non-BP pitches. He has 'survived' all this time on sheer luck that the opposing teams have had bad days collectively, but the Dodgers proved yesterday that he sucks and he has no right to be a starter for a professional baseball team. Besides being a lefty with a handful of 'tricky' pitches, Redman has no skill and Hurdle is being a damn fool for using him. My guess is that Redman will go down before Jiminez. I'm just glad Hurdle has shown the cajones to send down non-performers (Nix) which hopefully kicks the rest of them into gear.
-The Rockies should absolutely consider trading Ian Stewart (who's 3rd baseman skills and 6 homers are being wasted in Colorado Springs right now) for either a proven YOUNG starting pitcher or a truly consistent saver.
-Thank God for Atkins and Helton.
-Lastly, I hate the D-Bags with a passion but there's no doubting that they are really f'ing good. Usually world series teams have 1 or 2 'superstar' pitchers but they right now have 3 (well I guess 2.5 since Johnson is sort of a falling star) and their offense is disgusting. Their main weakpoints though are the relievers. I also really f'ing hate the Cubs (mainly due to their clueless dumbass dipshit fans). Their fans are the most retarded pieces of crap you have ever seen because they are the first one's to stand up for any kind of Cubs contact up to bat (popfly, grounder, foulball, doesn't matter) and if you have a couple of them in your field of vision at a game it really starts to piss you off. Anyhow the Cubs team is alright. They have the hitting and definitely the relieving (Kerry Wood as 'Reliever' is the definition of unfair) but not so much the starting pitching since Lilly pretty much counteracts any good that Zambrano and Dempster do.
-Yankees will suck until they realize that Joba Chamberlain could be a killer starter.
-BoSox are evil but they will pretty easily make the playoffs; they are definitely not the same team as last year though. Very different overall vibe there that perhaps Schilling brought.

-And lastly, obviously, by the look of things now the Rockies will be lucky to end up above .500; you won't be a good team when your pitcher has an awesome day but your hitters are acting like the opposing pitcher is Nolan Freakin Ryan meets Greg Maddux, OR when your hitters are awesome but your pitcher is acting like the opposing batters are all Ted Williams meets Barry Bonds. And the worst scenario of all which seems to be recurring is the one where your hitters are hitting and your pitcher is kicking the ass of the opposing team but suddenly it's late in the game and your relievers are nowhere near being on the same page as everyone else on your team and they go and blow the game (not once, not twice but about 6 times now). Very very pathetic. Here's the sad part though, the Rockies are making their run late last year out to be a fluke that the entire East Coast media had portrayed it to be. They all said that the Rockies were just 'hot at the right time' while every bandwagoner in Denver said 'BS! Damn East Coast bias!' Let's get something straight, though, last year they really were as good (ie Godly) as they were showing themselves to be and it really wasn't a fluke. They were simply all playing up to their potential (something that Nix never did) and they had good timing, yes, but it was still skill that was indeed better than the Dodgers, Padres, D-Bags, Phillies and D-Bags again. In the end it was a pretty cruel ending for them that they should lose all that momentum they had going due simply because they beat their playoff teams faster than the BoSux did.
I can guarantee you that this season will not end with the Rockies getting a sudden jolt of 'hotness' all throughout the lineup at the end that puts them into the playoffs. Nope, late last season was a 6-sigma event that was super-rare and therefore super unlikely to happen again for a long time to any team (in any sport). What the Rockies players, coaches and management have to do now is continue doing some 'shaking of the proverbial tree' to find a lineup that works with a starting rotation that works (not one which 'will do') and relievers who won't psych themselves out of the game by walking the leadoff batter and then giving up textbook linedrives to right and then losing their heads in the dugout (good job Corpas, Baseball Tonight had fun making your crying/pouting a 'highlight of the week', very lame).

-Here's what needs to be done now: Get rid of Redman (he sucks and will always suck, if an opposing team doesn't 10-run him in the first inning it is a fluke) and bring up Greg Reynolds now. Fuentes is on thin ice, Corpas might already be in the lake; consider moving Bucholtz to your main save man if Fuentes sucks more. Trade Ian Stewart for a real starter or kick Ian Stewart into the 2nd base spot. Hurdle brought up Capellan and he looked 'okay' but still he is not a decent replacement to a Fuentes/Corpas. Changes need to be done now before the D-Bags get so far out of reach that suddenly the season's over and they're left holding a very nice looking trophy.
By the way, by posting all this I can almost guarantee that Corpas/Fuentes will breakout of their funk, as will Tulo; Helton/Atkins unfortunately will probably come upon harder times. Why? Because if a fan (ie me) is this disgusted/starry-eyed about the player then the player will either now be thinking he is God (Atkins) or think he has just about hit rock bottom (Corpas) and they will probably reverse course (so goes life).

Mendoza's 5280 (reasons to be disgusted that the D-Bags will likely win it all, which by the way will likely mean that Webb/Haren will come upon harder times and the D-Bags will forget how to hold their bats).