we havent been this close on july first in 18 years

We have one of the three or four best offenses in baseball, and are only 2.5 games back. Nobody's saying that AA should trade the farm, but he should at least make a couple moves to bolster the pitching staff.

Rasmus was charged with a balk on that play right?

When a black player gets a walk.

At first I was assuming you were being sarcastic when asking about the balk. But if you truly want to know; there are over a dozen criteria that qualify as a balk. You can basically summarize it as "an offensive player (usually, but not limited to a baserunner) allowed to advance 90 feet (one base) due to the pitcher not having a fluid, uninterrupted motion towards the plate. Sorry for the vague definition, but the rule itself is pretty vague and it is often debated upon what truly constitutes a balk.

Yea the "if an out wasn't recorded, the batter should be credited with a hit" argument was quite a classic.

Isn't a fielder's choice , when a baseball player gets to choose what glove he plays with LOL

j/k , I couldn't resist