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but there's someone who's torn it apart
and she's taking almost all that I've got
but if you want, I'll try to love again
baby I'll try to love again but I know

Raging comebacks, blown leads, late-inning homers and a couple of dominating starts were the stories on a 4-3 night for the farm affiliates.

After today's bullpen implosion there were many frustrated Bauxites in the game thread.

Mike in CT asked 'How many more games would the Jays have won this year if they had even an average major league bullpen?'

It's that time again ... introducing the Batter's Box All-August team, a squad made up entirely of players born in the month named for good ol' Augustus Caeser.

You might remember that last month, we named our All-July team the July Franks, in honor of the best player in major league history named for the month of July, the ageless Julio Franco. The 62-year-old Braves first baseman, incidentally, has an August birthdate.

And you might think the best of major leaguers named for the month of August would be (drumroll please) ...

More rain, Jamie Vermilyea gives up some runs, a walk off home run, and a walk off stolen base, by a catcher.

It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much

?Japanese submarine slammed two topedoes into our side, Chief. Was coming back from the Island of Tinian Leyte. Just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb.

Aaron Reynolds has put together some terrific Batter's Box desktops for all us Blue Jays fans. These deserved their own thread, so here you go!

For those of you using (shudder) Internet Explorer, click on the desktop you want (and make sure you have the right size), wait for the image to load, right-click on the image and choose "Set As Background" from the menu.

At this point, it's obvious what's wrong with the Jays, occasional bullpen misadventures notwithstanding: they're not hitting. Their hit totals in their last eight games (shown in reverse order) are a frightening tale of futility at the plate: 3, 7, 5, 12, 4, 6, 8, 9. (The 12, oddly enough, was against the Yankees.)

The question: should J.P. Ricciardi have seen this coming? Does he deserve to be blamed for his team's offensive futility, or have injuries, bad luck, and unexpected declines in performance led to the Jays' offensive woes?

Yeah, I know, no one wants to do Cheer Club because they're so depressed. Well, too bad!

As Frank Zappa would have it: What's New In Baltimore?

The RED HOT Orioles (winners of nine of ten) arrive at SkyDome fresh off a series win in Anaheim over the Angels, who had been red-hot themselves. The Jays, as everyone knows, are slumping badly and now trail the Orioles for third place by eight games. A sweep would put Baltimore at .500, about where everyone expected them to be starting this season.

On to the Advance Scout!

I can pay the phone bills
I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol
I can work overtime
I can work in a mine

Adam Lind is hot, hot, hot.
Josh Banks is not, not, not.
Two rainouts and a rain shortened game, plus bonus coverage!

For a team that concentrated very heavily on pitching in the 2002 and 2003 amateur drafts and has called up two of its top hitting prospects already this season, the Toronto Blue Jays still have an abundance of interesting hitters in their farm system.