A Quest Called Tribe

By now I'm sure that you have heard the breakdown of Fausto Carmona's season versus the White Sox as opposed to the rest of the league, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

Earned Runs: Vs. White Sox (18 in 8 IP) - Vs. Everyone Else (16 in 56.1 IP)

ERA: ChiW (20.25) - [Bos, LAA, Bal, Min, KC, Oak] (2.56)

W/L: ChiSox (0-2) - Not ChiSox (3-2)

OBA: Pale Hose (.405) - Other Hues (.207)

WHIP: Guillen (2.63) - Sane Managers (1.03)

Suffice to say that Fausto (4.76 ERA) had better get it together because he might have to face Chicago a few more times.  It was so bad tonight that Chad Durbin was up and throwing in the 2nd inning.

Wait, why was it Chad Durbin throwing in the 2nd?

And why am I so relatively calm about an 8-2 loss and a two-game "sweep" at the hands of the StankSox?

Oh I dunno, maybe it has something to do with the fact that Justin Germano got his @$$ DFA'ed today.  I all but screamed out in ecstasy.  No self respecting contender can have a Germano in the pen.  His departure makes all of this Fausto inflicted insanity a bit easier to swallow.

The corresponding recall is a bit odd - Luis Valbuena.  Luis made it known yesterday that he was headed North, but the move is more about replacing non-DL'ed position players than adding Valbuena's talents to the major league roster.  With Travis Buck a scratch with turf toe, Orlando Cabrera off in South Carolina finalizing his US citizenship and the walking bruise we call Travis Hafner still nursing an oblique strain (that kind of thing can last weeks, I smell the DL coming), the Tribe bench was seriously undermanned.  My guess is that Luis makes a quick return to AAA and Mitch Talbot is activated to be used as the long man.  I certainly hope that Acta does not take a page from Ozzie Guillen's playbook an try to use a six man rotation.

The game wasn't a gaping black hole.  Matt LaPorta (.275) did crank out his first bomb of May.  And there was this...



Oh, and the California Faith Ministry might be right, Austin Kearns (.185) had two hits, including a double.  A surer sign of the apocalypse I have never seen.

That's all I got, kids.

Cheers.

P.s.  Word on the street is that Ezequiel Carrera is ready to jump to the bigs should Buck or Hafner take to the disabled list, although if it's Pronk, Chad Huffman might make more sense.