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Sunday, July 10, 2005
M's 7, Angels 4
Boy, did I ever pick the right weekend to get too busy for baseball. What did we learn from the Angels manhood-robbing four game sweep at the hands of the Mariners?
- We learned that the Angels' starting pitching is about as good as it's peripherals would suggest - which is to say, not that good.
- We learned that Ervin Santana isn't a big league pitcher... yet.
- We learned that the "Big" in Big John Lackey still stands for "Big Inning".
Not surprising - the first two were obvious to anyone who's been paying attention, and I had my suspicions about the last one. So in that sense, let's look at this not as a disaster, but as a "market correction". The Angels' team ERA is back where it belongs, their record has slipped back in-line with their Pythagorean win/loss, and the division lead is just about where it should be.
So that's the positive spin, if there is any. Now let us never speak of this weekend again.
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