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ccbird Hangout Grand Counsel

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It's not like Detroit is a bad team or something, I think some people are overreacting quite a bit. The night after their offense gets stymied by a rookie, they respond with their guy on the hill. It happens.

Hopefully we can get to Rodney in the 9th, it's not over till it's over.

Detroit is a good team but this one is still very frustrating. Guthrie kept us in the game after two early runs against Verlander. You got the sense we would battle back and we did but as I said a few times tonight we didn't do the little things that good teams do to win games. Of course you can't win them all but these are the types of games we have to find a way to win more often than we do if and when we expect to contend.

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People dissing Albers tonight either didn't see what happened or else they don't know what they were looking at...

Albers did fine, he was dealing with a lot of bad luck, but someone will have to convince me he's anything other than average.

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Albers did fine, he was dealing with a lot of bad luck, but someone will have to convince me he's anything other than average.

If he was better than he is, he'd have a better job than he does.

That's the way it is with most BP guys. The best you can expect is 3 good ones and another 3 or 4 who are OK.

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