nothing is well with wells

You won’t be paying Vernon thru season seat purchases

Who needs the stress of the postseason when we are so blessed to have Vernon and see Napoli drop bombs like Dresden in February 1945.

Look at the replay … you wilI notice VW tip his cap to the pitcher just as he settles into the batter’s box. He also had an extended “conversation” with Jose Molina during Vern’s standing O, just prior to stepping into the box. Suspicious, I tell ya. Seems fishy to me. Maybe Alex A felt like he owed the Angels since the trade ended up so terribly lopsided and ordered the meatball pitch?

At least not in my section. We mostly look around at each other, and make jokes about how this out will come. (when it is Mathis, we just start throwing money down on how many pitches it takes to get him out). Me and my brother mostly just predict his next BA. Usually about a point less than he started the at bat. I sit near left field, so I like to yell at him a lot, because I think he might be able to hear me. At the Angels, Mariners game last week, I was saying how VW was about to get out, and he hits a game winning RBI, and I start joking that now I need VW shirt. Props on being a fan in Brooklyn, I asume you used to live out here.

I’d say give him about 3 .2 years off to rest up

I’m in the BK as well.

From mid-August 2005 until the end of that season, Figgins switched between 3B and CF, with Finley and Quinlan “platooning.” DaVanon had a few starts in CF, even Juan Rivera.

Finley, who got off to an atrocious start, showed a little bit of life in May-June-July 2005. But a .143 August was the last straw, and our skipper finally pulled the plug. Vernon is in the midst of a .160 month of August, so the clock is ticking for him. Mathis is hitting .125 this month. Sosh is patient, to a fault, but he HAS made changes when he feels they’re necessary.

I don’t think we’re too far off from Scioscia tweaking the lineup. I could see a de facto platoon with Branyan, with Abreu playing LF while Branyan operates as the DH. Branyan might spell Trumbo here and there, too.

Despite newspaper reports, I can see Scioscia finally reducing Jeff’s playing time, too. Not completely, but giving Bobby and Hank (in September) more starts. I mean, it’s mid-August and Scioscia has to do something.

All that being said, Vernon will be back in spring training, with a fresh start. Unlike Finley and Alfonso, there is no trading partner for Vernon’s contract, except for Johan Santana. Seriously.