wow so much for this game after that grand slam. Neither of us is getting what we wanted. I wont geta win OR a save now. And I dont own Sexson anywhere. They just intentionally walked Ibanez to get to sexson when sexson his last 2 at-bats had a homerun and a deep fly ut.

TRhey SHOULD have brought in a lefthander if they had one left and then pitched to Ibanez and then intentionally walk sexson and bring in a righthander to pitch to beltre.

EDIT: THEY DID HAVE A LEFTHANDER BECAUSE NOW MULLHOLLAND CAME IN. See if I was managing then the final score would have been either 4-2 or 5-2, with me getting a save. Mullholland get out Ibanez (a lefthander), intentionally walk Sexson, then bring in a new pitcher for beltre. And mullholland would have probably got ibanez out but maybe ona groundout to make it 5-2.

And actually now mullholland just struck out Beltree too. So he could have obviously even stayed in for both ibanez and beltre both, sandwiched between an intentional walk of the one guy who could (and did) hurt them.

OMG TO TOP THIS SH*T OFF, guardado then comes in anyway and gives up a homerun.

f*** seattle. actually just sexson. so much for our winning streak. but it had to come to an end sometime i guess? well, we will start another one tomorrow.

IM SO EXCITED TO MEET LEW!!!!!!!

WE WON TODAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh...my...GOSH!!!!!

I just got back from MEETING LEW FORD!!!!! aka my FAVORITE player!!!!!

So, he didnt start signing until 6 you know, but of course I made my dad bring us there early...we got there at like 4:45 or something. Then the lady gave us a ticket which our #'s would be called off in groups so we didnt have to sit in a line or anything and we could go eat pizza (since it was at a pizza place). So thats what me and my dad and sister did. We ate dinner and stuff. Then we had to wait for awhile still and FINALLY they started calling off the #'s to go meet Lew!! So finally our # group was called...I was getting sooo excited!!! Then we got down to where Lew was and we could see him! ah! Anyways, we finally got up to meeting him! I had him sign my shirt, and then I told him he was my favorite player! and he was like, well thank you! and thank you for wearing my jersey. and I was just like your welcome! and then...I got a PICTURE with him!! and while my dad was having him sign my picture for me (only one autograph per person lol so my dad had him sign that for him for me you know but yeah) I took a picture of him signing it! Then my dad goes...so are you saving all of your homers for the end of the season? Lew seemed a little embarrassed but he was like, yup, I have about 20 left!! Then I told him good luck! oh and his wife and kids were there. He has 2 little boys who are cute! They were piggin out on pizza lol. Anyways, here are my pics!!

ME AND LEW!!

Him signing my picture!

My autographed shirt and pic!

GO TWINS!!!!!!!

lol that was funny your dad said that. Lew indeed has hit some lately though. He was picked up in 1 of my leagues.

haha yeah i know so hopefully he will hit 20 more and wont be so embarrassed lol

off day today. poo.

I hate offdays. They make it hard to gain in fantasy leagues too when many dont play.

oooooooh megan shame shame on the twins. I did not know they could still get him. they sooooooo messed up this time. he has nearly 30 homers and 10-20 steals.

Oh man they were dumb in my opinion. Unles Texas wanted just too much And in fact I believe they could have just paid his contract and TEX couldnt have stopped them from getting him without giving ANY player:

This afternoon's deadline passed without Alfonso Soriano being traded from the Rangers to the Twins.

The Twins had until today to work out a trade for Soriano after claiming off waivers. It's unclear whether there were any talks at all. Soriano is now ineligible to be traded for the rest of the season. Aug. 22 - 7:21 pm et

i think they got him off waivers MAINLY for the purpose of no other teams being able to get him. we dont want to trade our prize pitching prospects for a player for a month and a 1/2.

i hate off days also

with him you WOULD make the playoffs without many questions. Without him it is harder.

Actually I rememebr what the deal is now. If Texas WANTED to, they could ahve said fine you claimed him so you take him and then minnesota HAD to pay his contract and take him. Apparently Texas was only waiving him to try to trade him and didnt force Minnesota tot ake him though.

I have no clue about Soriano's contract. I assume it is not very high. So yeah makes sense they wanted a trade.

Minnesota may have done good to block other teams, but still if they dealt for him they WOULD make the playoffs. He was the right handed power guy they could badly use.

well we all thought BRET BOONE would help us, we all know what happend with that lol

Yay. All it took was one hit to win the game, and thats what we had. Jacque Jones' 8th inning homer makes it 1-0 and thats how the game stayed. Johan threw a 3-hit 8-ininng shut out with 7 strike outs! Joe Nathan gets his 32nd (I think) save. Jacque is not playing the rest of the series to go home for the death of his uncle. Shannon Stewart made an outstanding catch, but strained his shoulder. So...we dont know whats gonna happen with him. We WON though! so YAY

and since white sox were the team losing and Oakland lost, that is good. I pull for Minnesota to win most games for you now, so thus they win because I am just that freakin good!

That had to be a great game tho. I was gone and just saw the score and hit total and all that. Garcia is a great pitcher. Unfortunately he was one of Leandra's faves, so yeah... anyway!

oh geez, 9th inning was so nerve wracking! lol but what sucks is cleveland AND NY both won, so we didnt even make up any ground in wild card!!! poopy.

we lost. poopy. (thats my new fav word) we had a little rally too little too late. joe mays sucks the end.

oh yeah, at least cleveland and ny lost so we didnt lose any ground in WC so thats like the only plus of the night.

silva vs garland tomorrow should be GOOD

you told me Mays is great.

mays sucks...he might not make his next start....

we lost again...in ten innings. poopy

we finally won today! in 11 innings

we've won two in a row now, today and yesterday! yay go us.

we won tonight! but retard joe nathan RUINED johans win! now the max he can get this season is 18. poopy!

well im going to the game monday

they deserved to lose. Because I cant stand when managers do something dumb. Johan didnt have an enormous # of pitches and to be THAT dominant then he just takes him out? When that happens I always root for the team to lose to teach the manager to sotp that.

WELL they figured joe nathan would get the save and then johan would get the win! im still mad. johan needs these wins for his 2nd cy young award!! but, his ERA did go down again...now its a 3.07

Edited September 4, 200520 yr by ilovesurvivor07

I know, but you shouldnt take out someone when they are doing that great, no matter what closer you have. It is just asking for trouble.

well we won AGAIN! yay. im going to the game tomorrow afternoon AND tuesday night!! my friends dad has season tickets...and he gave me the tickets for tuesdays game! im so happy!

thats nice.

I GOT JUAN CASTROS HOME RUN BALL FROM LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!