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Jeff Francoeur criticizing people for not making contact? Really?

So remind me, when was it that AA was going to give Snit an ultimatum and make him use Markakis intelligently? It was last year, right? Or, oh yeah, when we extended him this winter. Oh, wait, no, it was when he opted back in. Yeah, that's it this time.

Just that. The Giants got in their feelings about someone making light of their names, cried to Selig, Kaminski wasn't allowed to play for like 2 days or so, and then Selig (or more likely Torre, but I'm off memory here) decided he wasn't breaking any rules and he went right back to what he does.

Sometimes I think the only explanation is that all of Chip's statements are high statements.

No, that's exactly what Kaminski does. He was suspended for a while a couple of years back because the Giants got their little feelings hurt by iy and complained to the commissioner's office.

By my understanding, they left that alone, but increased the size of the taxi squad. Edit: Oops, there was a whole 'nother page, and wupk had already gotten it.

Wait... Hideki Irabu? The Hideki Irabu who was such a spectacular failure in the majors, who went back to Japan after something like five seasons of five-plus ERAs? The one Steinbrenner publiucly called him a fat pus-sy toad (papers all censored the word, but if you watch the video, it was...

(speaking of the broadcast, someone needs to have a long talk with Francoeur about phrasing. He was talking about Albies earlier, and said something like "And if you want to plug him in the 2-hole, you can!)

So we blame them for jinxing him, right?

...did you maybe replace the wrong word?

I get the feeling D'Arnaud may not like his old team too much.

At this point, I'm ready to say the odds are better Newk becomes internationally famed for throwing a ball to the moon (by accident, while aiming for the catcher's glove) than they are of him taking a next step.

This, emm, might actually be a death blow.

None taken. There's a reason I added the "for what that's worth," after all.

DOB seems to think Tucker Davidson is next in line for a shot and that Anderson is 4th or 5th and not likely to be used this season, for what that's worth.

The Cardinals are now up to 13 positives.

Well, I was a bit unclear in my wording. The reports state they were about to bench him a bunch to avoid paying him some money, and he had had a couple of arguments with them about it, then disappeared. Your guess is as good as mine regarding how much truth is in there. The Athletic article...

Man, 17-3 would be a hell of a record.

So, reports are that the Mets were benching Cespedes to keep him from reaching playing time bonuses in his contract before he disappeared on them today.

Let's all remember that time spent on the major league DL counts toward service time.