Morning Update: Sooooo about yesterday

I've got about a half hour before I head off to bed. I'm starting to get used to this working and being exhausted thing. Hopefully tomorrow I can continue to get this done.

I've got this, the minor update, and a photoshop off day all ready to go while I'm working. Sweet eh?

Anyway, there's some stuff to get done and I've got only a half hour to do it before the sleep starts to kick in. And I'm watching the Magic game as we speak. So man they better pull it out or I'll slam a door.

15 Point lead, 5 Minutes.

Punk Rondo Out!

Okay this is a baseball blog!

This quote sort of makes things go away for a minute.

"To be honest, I thought I wasn't on the roster," said Huff, promoted to make his Major League debut against the Rays. "I thought there was a problem with me. I was like, 'Oh God, I hope everything's OK. Just my luck.'"

So that was the big smile on Huff's face when they were talking.

Hilarity...

TURKOGLU!!!

Okay it looks good, I'll continue on now.

Just as I thought on David Huff though..

"He was erratic," manager Eric Wedge said. "You could tell he was a little nervous early on. I don't think we saw his 'A' game today. I think he was just fighting to control the baseball with most of his pitches. It still stems off the fastball command, and it was tight up there today."

David needs to settle in. I'm going to be interested to see how he goes next time out. He'll make his next start on Saturday against Cincinnati if he sticks in the rotation. I'd let him get that start and maybe another one against Tampa at home.

Anyway you can feel the frustration mounting for this team. Yesterday, which is technically today since I'm writing this on Sunday night. I thought that the throw behind B.J. Upton was retaliation for throwing at Victor Martinez's head.

Kerry Wood explained that frustration and what happened against Upton, and AC actually goes into deep what this whole throwing behind Upton was sort of about.

"I felt like we had a good chance to win this series," Wood said. "We had our opportunities. We were up and couldn't hold the lead. We should have won a series, and now we're 1-3. So it's frustrating, and it's been frustrating for a while. I don't think it can get a whole lot more frustrating than where we're at right now. At least I hope not."

"I haven't pitched a lot lately," said Wood, who was working for the first time in four days. "I didn't come out of the chute throwing strikes. I was just trying to make [Upton] uncomfortable."

Here is why I kind of love Joe Maddon though.

"It was really obvious that Wood came into the game to try and hit B.J.," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "I know there's all these unwritten rules in baseball. But to me, when the other team stops trying to score runs, that doesn't mean you have to stop trying to score runs also. ... The book was written when the ball wasn't as lively. Scores change rather rapidly these days. So there's a lot of pages from the book that need to be burned, extracted, whatever you want to call it."

It seems as if this is stemming from B.J. Upton stealing bases when down 9-0.

Wait isn't it that you don't steal when up 9-0?

I'm not with the Indians here on this. I'm all for throwing inside against Upton with Wood, in retaliation for throwing at Vic's head. But not for the steals. Come on now. Martinez responds to Wood.

"He needs to worry about teaching his players to play the game the right way," said Martinez, who had nearly charged the mound when J.P. Howell threw him a fastball toward the head Friday. "You've got to show respect to get respect. You don't see nobody stealing when it's 9-0 in the sixth or seventh inning."

Really then?

Okay I guess. I'd be fine with it for Howell throwing at him, but not for the steals. I don't agree.

Also on Percival hitting DeRosa. They said he didn't have intent. So the warnings went aside. Whatever, JP Howell says, Whatever.

I should mention that Martinez's quotes aren't as clean as they look. They included a few expletives that not even the CPD could print.

Oh if you want to relive the lineup mistake.. Read this quote and visit this link.. I already talked enough about that silliness. I really feel it hurt David Huff in this game.

"When they all gathered at first base, my immediate thought was, 'Take your card out of your back pocket,' and I did," Maddon said.

"Two fives, five there and five there," said Maddon, pointing to the mistake on the scorecard. "And I said, 'Oh no.' My only concern at that point was that Longo stayed in the game. ... This was unacceptable. I [made a mistake]."

If you want to relive the call, or no call on the Garko double.... Well that I will bring up.

"It's a missed call," said Garko. "If we get the double, it means we get the tying run to the plate and Vic [the AL's top hitter] gets an at-bat in the ninth."

"There was no way I saw it the way the umpires did," said Wedge. "Obviously, that's the way the third-base umpire saw it and for whatever reason no one else [the three other umpires] saw it differently."

Tony Sipp was one of the call-downs thanks to Huff and Aquino coming up. But this isn't the end of Sipp this year. Wedge needs him back.

"He needs to go down and relax and get himself back on track so he can come back and help us," Wedge said

Also on the relief pitcher front. Wedge said Laffey was a old-school relief pitcher.

"He's like an old-school reliever," said manager Eric Wedge. "He can give you two or three innings at a time and not have to be shut down for a week. I wish we had two or three more like him."

Yeah you do. You could go with the starter for five, get three from your relief pitcher and bring in Kerry Wood every night.

Eric Wedge lost his 500th game on Saturday. He won 500 a few weeks ago remember?