Fields's Dream

First off, I have something to get off my chest. I think the Picks to Click segment of the broadcast could not possibly be any more annoying. (I feel better already) Nobody cares who a couple of random people pick to do good and the last thing we need to hear is the names of all the people who made the picks. WE DON'T CARE! The thing that annoys me the most are the numbers next to the names. What the hell do they mean? My guess is that its the number of people who picked that person to "click" but once again, NOBODY CARES how many people picked them. I know the whole thing is about promotion but if I am Southwest, I don't want my name associated with that waste-of-time. In fact, last month when I was flying to Colorado, I had my Southwest ticket all ready to buy until I heard "and Jim Angio and our Hall of Fame crew select..." in the back of my head and I immediately switched to Midwest. (OK that's a lie) Sorry to put you through that rant.

Now back to tonight's game. I will admit I didn't see most of it. I started off watching but then after BA's twin killing in the first with the bases loaded and then the slew of errors in the second to hand them three runs got me pissed off so I switched to the CWS, where J. Mitchell continued to impress me. When I turned back to the game in the eighth, Matt Kemp immediately hit a homer and then Gobble (Captain Clutch) drilled Pierre in the back so I started that thought process that maybe somehow I am effecting (or is it affecting, never understood that) the game. But Jenks came in and wrapped things up with what might have been his best stuff on the year to relieve me of my anxiety. Speaking of anxiety, what is going on with the D-Train? But anyways, Jenks' stuff was electric tonight and that was real nice to see because he had been struggling just a touch lately. I also did manage to hear that the ball left the ballpark with great abundance throughout the game which is always nice to hear.

Speaking of guys hitting it out, what got into Josh Fields tonight. If you were to ask me the odds of Fields hitting two home runs in the game, I would have told you don't waste my time. But I do think this complicates things a bit. He won't get many innings at first, so then the question becomes where do his at bats come from. Personally, I would write this game off as more of a fluke but when someone hits two homers they deserve to play the next game. And what complicates things even more is that Beckham hasn't been all that impressive with the bat. Perhaps if we become buyers (key word being "if"), Fields would make a nice piece of trade bait. A lot of things Ozzie and Kenny have to think about so I will need more time to process all of this and write more on it tomorrow. (I believe the the movie business calls that a "cliffhanger ending")

A couple other observations I made in the little action that I saw:
1) Josh Fields could not look anymore unnatural at first base. He pulls his foot off the bag so early on throws to first that I am just waiting for the runner to be called safe. I know all first baseman do that but Fields is taking it a little to far in my estimation.
2) I still don't know why Ozzie was tossed yesterday.
3)I guess I only made two observations worth noting.