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Now that’s an anecdote! (I can’t figure out who the actor is.)
Jackson likely to be activated tonight? I think they ought to go with a Carter-Crisp-Jackson alignment. Don’t see any point in giving Rajai any more starts (that pickoff at 2B was the final straw so far as I’m concerned).
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Interesting. Guess Barton’s shoulder is really bad.
ed note: this post has been Grillified!

Freddy Garcia vs. Vin Mazzaro
From a flurry of Slusser twitter we learn:
1. Crisp cf, Barton 1b, Suzuki c, Cust dh, Kouzmanoff 3b, Ellis 2b, Gross rf, Watson lf, Pennington ss
2. Bailey unavailable with back spasms, but feeling better.
3. BowzerBowers back up
4. Sheets to DL with sore elbow. So much for trading him.
5. Anderson [...]

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four years at a guaranteed $16.25 million, and a fifth year, 2014, that kicks in with a vesting option based on games played, with the number just under 120 games

gso already hit the obligatory insta-joke reaction. What’s everybody else think?

Interesting Beane interview by Kawakami. (His column based on it is utterly useless, and another example of PF/AM in the trad journo trade; also, while the interview itself is worth reading because Beane seemed to be wearing his emotions and opinions on his sleeve a lot more than he typically does, Kawakami hardly engages Beane [...]

Lockard: RiverCats website has removed Clay Mortensen from tonight’s scheduled starter box. Called up to replace Braden?
Puny forearms/approaching meteor
Christ, what an ant crack
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Do I have $5?
Markos doesn’t come off as especially astute here
No, seriously: anyone in the Phils‘ farm system we want?
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No Cust again today, again vs a RHSP. Jackson at DH, Gross in RF, Rajai in LF. Crisp leading off. And Rosales gives Cliffy (at least?) one day off.
Byg Twyt speculates a roster shakeup a-comin’ — I agree. The Fox/Patterson DFAs were likely the initial volley. He thinks Cust is gone in a couple weeks [...]

They needed help vs. LHPs and this is that. Conor Jackson is not very good overall, though, and he might suck now after being injured stricken with “valley fever” (sounds like an std…) last year. Other people will dislike losing Demel more than me. I don’t have strong feelings about this.

Tossing a shitty fat guy over the deck of the Titanic.

Ellis back. Good job/thank you to everyone involved in that decision….