I was at that game and man, it was a shot to the gut. But, you mention that “Fuentes was never the same…” as if his career is over. Uh, he will get over it here real soon. He’s a pro. He’s making baby steps to getting back to where he was. He had his glare today and that is a big part of his mental makeup, IMHO.

I was disturbed at the FSN cameras zooming in on Mathis while catching the other night. “Next one’s a fastball in/this one’s a fastball away.” Heck, if Guby knows the signs that easily, then for sure, it is known to the other team. This is a good point you bring up, but I am sure that Scioscia and Butcher are going to deal with it.

infact…….he’s doing as well as Frankie………..they’ve both had some minor hiccups this year.

No worries from me.

might have been shaky but it’s still a save. it will help with his confidence and i have no doubt he will start a new streak of saves. smart move by soth to let jepsen (who was my vote for panther) to pitch the first out of the ninth. fuentesaurus then came into a situation where he was likely to be successful: nobody on. just need to get two more outs. i’m more concerned with who will be our third starter in the playoffs…palmer??

hahha it was kinda funny to see Fuentes get booed today.

If i were the manager i would have left Jepsen in the game. He was pitching nails. I agree, for once, with Eric Karros, when he said that Sosch needs to find out whether Fuentes can handle the pressure, but at the same time Texas was not the team to test him against. If not for aybar we would have seen our lead decrease by one whole game. Fuentes was definately had some luck on his side today, and his struggles dont look over yet. I would let jepsen take over for a little for close games. And then when our offense gets back to hammering people, let Fuentes iron out his issues in those games when we’re up by 10.

PS: Who else was annoyed that Eric Karros did nothing but talk sh*t on the older players. "Vladimir isn’t as good anymore, he’s going down hill. So and so’s pitching (Hoffman?) isnt as good anymore. He sounded like a bitter old hasbeen.

I think we are quite lucky to have Brian Fuentes for better or worse as the case may be.

Since the blown save he has pitched in THREE games. Two of which we won and the other wasn’t even a save opportunity. No closer is perfect. Even that jig-dancing side-show freak over in Beantown has blown three saves this year and given up 4 home runs. Compare that Fuentes…5 homeruns and 4 blown saves. Not that much of a difference huh?
K-Rod? Even worse…guy has given up 5 homeruns and blown five saves himself.

Lol is there a stat for Blowsaves that werent blown due to good defensive plays…..cuz today would have been one more to add to the list. thats twice in 3 games lol.

He really does not help settle anyones nerves, it was funny to see Gubi point out everyones anxiousness tonite.