Bulletpoints...

This season has been a very confusing one of the Bruins, which has seen them bounce from 5 up, to 5 down in the division.

With August halfway gone, here's some bullpoints from the last sim and change...

* A 4-1 sim for the Bruins means a 4-1 sim for the Frenzy, and 3-1 sim for the Mentalists. Figures.
* Boston took out UTL Jose Nunez, and karma took out SP Jose Lara -- both will miss the rest of the season.
* The roster expands in three sim's. LA looking for help at the plate, but their may not be much.
* Newell makes his return to the lineup next sim.
* Phillips misses his scheduled start date, so the Bruins will push it back and start someone on four days rest.
* The Bruins will sit down and try to figure out a plan of attack, as they play 21 days straight. Their aren't many bats to go around, and some of the better ones will have to sit.

Deadline tidbits...

* With the Trade Deadline looming, the Bruins have brought UTL Woody Garner from Greenville to Los Angeles to pencil into Brad Anderson's every day lineup.

* The Bruins are in talks with one or two more teams about bringing one more utility guy to even out the bench within the infield, pushing Ingilby back to his day-to-day, position-to-position model.

* With the Bruins having locked manager Brad Anderson up for the next five years, it has been confirmed Anderson has convinced the give Phillips the $6M annually he is seeking and tick on some performance bonuses in case Phillips develops further, " Give him something to work towards " noted Anderson.

* The Bruins find themselves in second place after taking just one of three from Sacramento which saw the club blow a lead late in game two.

* As far as contracts go, the Bruins will be at 101M of a 98M budget to start the 12' campaign, which is a number that management is seemingly okay with, though, the team would look to fill the squad with MLC's and hope injuries stay mild.

Another shitty sim for Los Angeles...

The Bruins did what they did best last week,... split series and go 2-3.

The Bruins find themselves just a game ahead of the rest of the "ever-so-tight" pack in the Wild Card race with the All-Star break around the corner.

While seemingly everyone on the Bruins has went into the shitter, SP Ricky Bolden pitched a great game versus Sacramento help the Bruins save face and split the series.

" It was just another game " Bolden was quoted as saying after being the team formerly known as the Squids.

The more interesting note to come from the VBL6 this week is that JTP has taken control over the Orlando franchise again making the Wild Card race, and rest of the ML alot more interesting.

All in all, this season is turning out to be the greatest yet.

It's getting Rowdy in Los Angeles...

Rumors broke late Monday afternoon, that Los Angeles had acquired starting pitcher Harvey Phillips from the Haddonfield, for fan favorite; Manuel Rodriguez, former set-up man Floyd Faulkner, CF Jorge Gutierrez and SP Glenn Christensen who fell from grace during Spring Training.

While ManRod and Phillips have pitched do a duel this season, the lefty will help Los Angeles down the stretch run versus teams who prevent lefty heavy lineups. Los Angeles park should also provide a spark to Phillips whose coming from a different league and will now face real competition.

ManRod pulled up lame in his last start, so Phillips coming over is going to be a real godsend for the Bruins who would have had to slot Joe Brooks into the rotation, but were hesitant to do so after Brooks has dominated in the bullpen this season.

Los Angeles is looking forward, trying to catch Sacramento and having Phillips can't hurt.