I TOLD the Red Sox to get Dayan Viciedo!!!!

I was watching the Tigers/White Sox blow out on MLB Network while helping my son out with his homework. (Don't look at me like THAT! We did it all!)

By the end of the game Ozzie was basically looking down the bench and yelling "Who hasn't played yet?" and made the box score cluttered with September call ups like a split squad Spring Training Game.

I looked up and saw a house of a dude at the plate that I had never seen before. #24. Big huge right handed batter. He just LOOKED like a ballplayer.

They flashed who it was.

It was Cuban sensation Dayan Viciedo... who showed off his right handed power with both Birmingham and Charlotte in the White Sox farm system.

The guy who at age 21 gives the White Sox a potential right handed stud in the infield (along with Alexi Ramirez and Gordon Beckham could be putting together an awesome infield on the South Side.)

The guy who already has 3 big league homers.

The guy who, sight unseen, I BEGGED the Red Sox to sign him because potential right handed power hitting studs don't grow on trees!

I saw him walk.

And I can already tell... the Red Sox should have listened to me!

Tony LaRussa should be trying to Restore the Cardinals to the Pennant race

Call me nuts, but maybe the time Tony LaRussa spent coming up with a speech for Glenn Beck's dopey little promotional stunt could have been used in a more productive manner:

Like how about a game plan against the Nationals.

You know when you are the prohibitive favorite to win the division with the best 1-2 punch in the rotation in all the National League and a guy who seems hell bent to win his third straight MVP and you are LOSING ground to the Reds and Phillies... maybe promoting a Fox News talk show shouldn't be priority one.

Oh yeah, the Nats won 14-5... the Cardinals pitchers are letting up an average of 9 runs a game to the Nationals.

Maybe they should have Glenn Beck write THAT on his chalk board.

Hey Giants... can you at least let fans get to their SEATS before you lose?

Seriously... the Giants were down 3-0 before they even came to bat on Friday.
Saturday? It was a 6-0 hole they dug themselves.

So people grabbing garlic fries or a Cha Cha Bowl hadn't even finished getting their napkins before the game was decided.

Can you at least put up a FIGHT?

It will be better for concessions if you aren't so quick to CONCEDE!

Well THAT couldn't have helped Jon Lester's Cy Young bid!

Wow... 5 runs on the board before the Red Sox even took a swing?
9 runs in two innings?

His ERA jumping from 2.80 to 3.26?

Now THAT is how you end a good run of games.
I must say, my theory is correct about losses. It's better to lose by a lot and by a lot early. This game was over in the first inning, so I didn't spend the night fretting over the Sox.

There were no teeth ground tonight.

It's better to lose like this where you can shrug and say "Well, we didn't have it today" as opposed to blowing a lead late or dropping a 1-0 game.

Our ace got his ass handed to him. Go get them tomorrow.

Then again, there will be no sweep of Toronto and this team needs to sweep a few series to make this season remotely competitive (which is looking more and more like it won't be.)

Ah just win tomorrow, Dice-K. You know you won't have the worst start of any Sox pitcher this week. Just go three innings and give up 8 or fewer runs.