Why not give Hoffpaur a start at 3B. He was hitting in the minors, got a good hit the other night. Word is he’s not much defensively, but neither is Thurston.

no more ankiel, duncan, or thurston. i don’t care who starts in their place, but they are all done. and tyler greene obviously needs to be in memphis.

and thurston again….can we see what hoffpauir can do? can’t be any worse than thurston

When DeRosa is healthy, have to wonder if Thurston goes down (if he has options).

la russa is a great manager, hof for sure. i don’t know how to manage a team, but my observation is that baseball players, more than any sport it seems, are creatures of habit. constantly switching spots thwarts consistency, and familiarity. how can a player become a great cf, if he plays it only sometimes?

THE GENIUS;Tony larussa has made the decision that rasmus and i assume ludwick need to be in the lineup on an everyday basis.I agree w/ tony, this is a great move by the future hall of famer.Its amazing how great minds work and i can only wonder how tony was able to some how figure this out.This move rates right up there right along side some of his other incredible decisions like pulling kip wells after kip lost his 14th start in a row and placing izzy on the dl after jason said he wasnt going to take the mound and hurt the team any more, or other almost psychic moves like not playing pujols in the all star game and pinch hitting for mark mcgwire in the playoffs.We are so lucky to have this supercaptain steering our ship.I wonder what other legendary manuevers we will see in the future.I could only guess maybe calling up the clutch hitting stavinoa or the hitting phenom brett wallace. I know im not worthy to even ponder such difficult decisions and whatever moves tony makes im sure will be well thought out and could take several months or years before he finally puts his stamp on them. I thought about this move [with the outfield]about 3 mnths ago and im so proud now that tony has confirmed that hey i was right.So continue on Supercaptain steer us on into the future, we are so proud to be just a small part of your legendary career.

colby “beef” rasmus is my new hero! let’s leave the cheese in wisconsin “sign guy”.

This lineup is almost perfect…. just put DeRosa when healthy in the 5 spot and put ankiel as 7th. Colby should be an everyday player for this team and bat in the 2-spot ahead of Pujols.

This is the lineup order that should be used consistently (minus Joe Thurston). Let’s hope the fact that we scored 10 runs against a starter like Arroyo will get Tony to wise up and stop meddling with the batting order. Leave Rasmus hitting before Pujols and stop sitting him out of the game entirely like the other day. This outfield has very little weakness defensively and Ludwick is showing signs of coming around. As for Thurston…. Yikes! What does this guy give you outside of running hard to first base after a walk??? Put in Hoffpauir, Greene or call up Barden and let’s be done with it!!!