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.

The Bruins going balls deep...

News out of Los Angeles late last night, is that the Bruins have secured a deal with Alibaba.com to bring the "porn to the park".

The Bruins are having a fake-mustache day to honor one of their own for his good play at the start of the season...

3B Enrique Jaramillo

Team employees will be giving out fake mustaches to all who come to the park that day, young and old -- and 3B Enrique Jaramillo couldn't be happier about it.


" No podría ser más feliz sobre él " added Jaramillo, which means I couldn't be happier about it in Spanish.


The game will take place on Sunday, July 29th when the Oklahoma Droggies come to town.


Jaramillo, when asked about conflicting mustache drama as Oklahoma first  basemen Jules LaFlamme sports a stache' as well, Jaramillo had commented, " Soy confuso. ¿Usted ve el bigote de hombres que uso, y el que está de un violador serial él usa? ¿No es Julio un nombre de la muchacha? Enrique es un nombre fuerte." which translates too,..." I am confused. Do you see the manly mustache I wear, and the one of a serial rapist he wears? Is Jules not a girl name? Enrique is a strong name. "

No matter what Jaramillo does the rest of the year - he's carried the team this far and the Bruins fans should be thankful, he came to Los Angeles last year at the deadline and played horrible - but after going through the arbitration process and signing a contract ext to stay with Los Angeles through the for-see-able future, Enrique has been good and seems like a solid fit to the lineup.

May Ends, June Begins...

The Bruins will either go 18-10, or 19-9 in the month of May which saw them lose first place to the Sacramento Squids, erm Mentalists...

All in all, the team had seven injuries - three to the disabled list, including fan favorite SS Jong-Min Kim. When asked about what's turned around Kim's season, GM Brouillette had the following to say.

" The Gottee" he pushed on, "People don't understand it's power. Kim changed his facial hair up and it totally changed the entire way he played. He went from wide eyed kid, to sex'd up superstar. He didn't go full gottee, he went with that little douchebag thing down from his lip to his mouth. We like his performance though"

I'm 100% sure this is going to jinx Kim but he's finally playing well.

A few quick tidbits from the month.

• Pickup continues to get hurt, has setback.
• Bolden has been average at best, Parsons a bit better.
• Brouthers was picked up from Madison and while his averaged has raised his OBP has dropped.
• LA only played 6 home games the entire month

Brouthers in town... passes all tests...

The Bruins going 3-1 was good last sim, but the big news was that Lee Brouthers passed all tests needed, and has arrived in Los Angeles.

Brouthers who we noted last post, has had a decent year but will continue to help Los Angeles boast one of the better defenses within the league.

Brothers is likely to slide into the #6 or #7 slot int the lineup and add a spark to an otherwise horrible bottom of the lineup.

Fans in Los Angeles get their first taste without the injured Pickup as well as Joe Brooks will make his first official start this season as part of the starting lineup.