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Biggest Contribution: Russell Branyan, +45.1%
Biggest Suckfest: Ichiro, -23.4%
Most Important AB: Branyan homer, +52.2%
Most Important Pitch: Thomas single, -10.8%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +55.4%
Total Contribution by Lineup: -5.4%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
(What is this chart?)

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I don't quite get it, but that pic is awesome.
Russell Branyan is trying to tag out Major League Baseball.
I'm trying to figure it out.

So..Russell is chasing the league? Or MLB is running away from him?

Russell Branyan is trying to capture Major League Baseball and make it his own
First step: our hearts.

Second step: the MLB!

I wish he would capture me and make me his own.
Perhaps I could have found an actual picture of Branyan running
The movement lines sell it for me.
The league is clearly running away from Branyan because he rapes the MLB.
Branyan's calf is bulging or something

Or trembling with all of its massive muscley-ness.

That chart is excellent.
Too bad we'll never gain a game on the Angels

Branyan can only do so much to help the cause.

Or Texas, for that matter.
Angel's strikezone according to Gameday.

Picture not shopped.

The Angels will soon have a better record than the Red Sox.
100 wins last year!
But not good!

Does not compute.

We can't control what the Angels or Rangers do.

We need to match and exceed their wins, and beat them when we play them. I’m not that concerned about the Texas (they have to fade in August), and in my mind I know the Angels cannot keep this up, we just need to win the games we play. This M’s team has a lot of comeback in them. I see playoffs.

The thing is, we can't do much better than 7-3 in 10 games

Yet our last 10 games is what is arguably knocking us out of contention.

We aren't out of it yet.

The games still have to be played.

Texas has to fade in August? The Angles cannot keep this up?

Bullshit.

Oh, OK enjoy the rest of the summer, it's been sunny and warm,

There’s lot’s to do.

THIS IS NOT AN OPEN THREAD FOR THE ANGELS GAME
So....wild card?
We will soon be closer to the Wild Card than the AL West.
Nick Adenhart was actually a ritual sacrifice.

The Angels are evil and will stop at nothing to win.

If we're going to win the AL West...(haha?)

Its going to be beating up on the Angels and Rangers. Which doesn’t seem that far fetched, it seems like we’ve owned the Angels this season.

And the Rangers have like, what, three extra inning wins against us? We’re the reason they were in first for so long instead of us.

All will be corrected in due time!

Then again...we win every game by 1...
Luckily, aggregate runs scored in a season do not count towards a playoff berth.
I'm with you. This is a long way from being over.
Morrow blew at least two of them.
And I just wish we played the Angels sooner so they won't be out of reach when we finally do play them.
I'd rather play the Angels when they're not hot to the touch, though
We only have five (I believe) games left against the Angels
6 games

10 games left against the A’s and Rangers

So Russell plus pitchers equals 100.5%

Go team!

We really just need to move Branyan to third...

Call up Carp, bench Junior, make Shelton the DH, try out Saunders in left field…Results could either be epic or disastrous.

No need to rush Saunders

I think Langerhans is filling in nicely (2 walks and a hit today!).

Regardless of if Griffey is starting, we can’t justify having Shelton, Sweeney and Griffey all on the roster.

Langerhans is fine in LF right now

I trust the new FO to call up Saunders when they feel he’s ready developed enough to face major league pitching and not a second too soon. I’d be far more concerned about SS and who will be the starting SS for the rest of this year and more importantly, the years to come.

Is it wrong that I'm genuinely surprised and happy a comment by a new poster made absolute perfect, crystal clear sense?
We were all new posters once.

And, in some cases, twice.

All of this would be silly.
Slow down. Wak has done a good job.

He is going to take care of this. I’m not worried. Trust him.

He's starting to look kind of squinty in the dugout
Branyan is fine second in the lineup

There really isn’t room on the playing roster for Carp
Shelton is not going to provide much more than Jr
Langerhans is fine in LF and Saunders is highly unlikely to offer any sort of substantial upgrade.

0-4.

To be fair, he was advocating moving Branyan to 3B

It’s still not a great idea , but a lot of us were hoping for it when Beltre had surgery (and prior to the acquisition of Hannahan).

Ah, read it as third in the lineup, not third the position.

That is a decent idea but with Hannahan aboard, probably not worth it.

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