There’s got to be a black cloud hovering over my starting pitchers’ heads at all times. This year in my NL-only league, I’ve shattered my own world record for blown wins that I set on an annual basis. Today was Randy Johnson’s eighth or ninth late-game debacle. He took a 4-0 lead into the seventh inning and gave up three runs. Typically, my closer, Brandon Lyon, would then cough it up in the ninth, but it didn’t get that far as Chad Qualls peed it away in the eighth.

By the way, since I acquired Lyon three weeks ago, his ERA is nearly 20.00 with a comparable WHIP. My other closer, Brian Fuentes, has actually been fantastic. That is until today when he was placed on revocable waivers by the Rockies and is ironically now on bereavement leave. Rockie management has decided to do this while the team is in the midst of its best stretch of the season and has closed to within five games of Arizona.

The combination of Big Unit, Hiroki Kuroda, Tim Lincecum and Todd Wellemeyer are owed about 25 wins. I’m not even joking. I’m talking comfortable leads late in games and their bullpens blew it. Wins of course is a huge category and I’ve gone from first to fourth place over the past month.

And don’t even get me started on Matt Lindstrom, who is singlehandedly trying to ruin my season. Just don’t… I’m warning you.