Even if they swept, I would be thinking back how we gave up 2 against Philly and thinking we should have took 6 in a row from these two.

Though I must say, I will be pleased if they win tomorrow and take this series. Then the talk on Monday won’t be dominated by Castillo’s drop, because the Yankees will have dropped 5 of 6 to the Sawx and Mets. I actually like Luis, which I know is unpopular. I just feel like he is one of those guys that is hated on because he just got lucky enough to be offered way too much money to go where he wanted to anyway and he smartly accepted it, like any of us would. He isn’t great by any means, but I think he has exceeded most of our expectations this year. He has also played tons of games and stayed healthy. His range is gone, but I really don’t think he is a horrible player. Though it is hard to watch him hit left handed, I sometimes wonder if he should make the full time switch to righty. The way he hits, you would think he would be able to handed balls breaking away from him. When he faces left handed pitching, he really is a very nice hitter. I also respect that he wasn’t a pussy about the whole drop thing, he took what he had coming like a man. His teammates seemed to have his back too.

Do I think Orlando Hudson would be better? Sure, but after last year, Luis could have just said the hell with it, mailed it in for the rest of the contract and waited for a release, and collected his money, but he has worked his ass off to get into better shape, and he has stayed healthy, we could have had Wilson Valdez and Ramon Martinez both playing in the infield at the same time. He also gives us a .360 OBP at the top of the order, however hollow it is, he does a nice job getting on for Beltran and Wright.

Seriously, if this garbage keeps getting posted, it just continues to cheapen AA’s signal-to-noise ratio, which is looking pretty fragile these last few weeks. Make it stop! Let’s have some frigging standards!

Centerpede needs a bounce back post.