Even A Blind Squirrel Can Find A Nut

Aaron Cunningham hit a home run on Sunday.  It will keep him on this team for at least another month.  Does the moronic brass or mongoloid fan base care that he struck out in all 3 of his subsequent at-bats and left 5 men on base?  Are they troubled by his .171 average or his mediocre defense?  Hell, no.  Because they're idiots.

Suprisingly though, that's not what I want to talk about.  I really enjoy playing the Orioles and I'm sure that Justin Masterson does as well.  Heck, Bat likes playing everybody at this point.  If you watched any of the game today, you heard plenty about Masterson's June performance (2.09 ERA, .206 OBA, 1.00 WHIP), but the success goes further back than that.  Justin has made 17 starts this season and over the past 13 his ERA is 3.25 and he has held opponents to a .235 average.  I'm a sucker for symmetry.  After a stretch of 9 starts in which he averaged 5.5 BB/9, he has bounced back to a 1.7 BB/9 ratio in his past 7.  It was said that Masterson pitched like a true ace today and I agree.  The issue is that it simply seems unlikely that Bat, due to his gangly frame, will be able to avoid schneids like that 9 game set.  And, as such, he can never be an bonafide #1.  Still, I'll take what I can get, especially when we're back to a game and a half out of first.

Also of mild excitement is the resurgence of Shelley Duncan.  He's hit in his last five, batting .421 with 4 doubles, 2 homers and 5 RBI.  That's good for a 1.447 OPS.  And how about Lou Marson?  Lou-Lou is batting .386 with a .978 OPS since late May.  I don't expect this level of production to last, but hopefully they bring it back from the Atlantic Coast with them.


And, hey, no disrespect to Chris Perez and Asdrbual Cabrera, but I would have taken Vinnie Pestano and Jason Kipnis...

Roll Tribe.

Cheers.