Not for a second... not after you see what real playoff-built teams look like in the AL. The NL is the minor leagues of MLB.
Of course that's the mentality you need to have...but still, the team has no margin for error and this game is just as important as the last game a week from now. So I still think you need to take that into consideration a little bit. A tired Lidge or Wheeler or Springer or Nieve will be about as effective as Wandy and Borkowski have been this game. You gotta to play to win now but you still have seven games left...so you have to play and manage to win all seven of them, rather than just focusing on the first couple and exhausting your bullpen.
Garner has made mad questionable moves tonight. Using Wandy and Dave when they havent done well for weeks is simply stupid. I really wish he wouldnt have started Willy T tonight. Lane came through so thats one thing he got right. I want this one so bad.
Does anybody know why the Astros didn't callup Mark McLemore. He had a good season in Round Rock and has nasty stuff. He has arm problems but was healthy if I ain't mistaken. He is on the 40 man roster and this pen could use another lefty.
He was still essentially re-habbing after his surgery to end the year (throwing 2 innings at a time)... the way pitchers let their arms fly, you don't want to risk anything by bringing up an arm that's still healing, cause you know the kid would throw the hell out of it (and potentially end his career).
Each batter we send to the plate just gets us that much closer to getting Lance back up there... gotta look at the positives some way or the other.
It's only a 4-2 deficit and we had a young, inexperienced pitcher starting the game, went to the bullpen early, and used Wandy and Borkowski as well. I dunno bout ya'll but I surely wasn't expecting it to be a 1-0, 2-1 type game. Would be nice sure...but when Clemens, Pettite and Oswalt aren't pitching, you have to put up more than 2 runs.
Or Lamb... Lamb's got the higher average, and more experience coming off the bench ready to hit. Could go either way... if you bring in Huff, you can leave him in.
Wow...Orlando Palmeiro in...I'll say that is definitely a head scratcher...he's a contact hitter but not the hitter I want with 2 outs.
