During the game last night or maybe it was the night before they showed Maine sitting in the bullpen yakking with Smith , Gary wondered if we would see him in that nights game. I thought to myself things are more than desperate if they bring him in for some key outs. Manuel last night seemed to have put paid to any thoughts of Maine pitching again this season. Despite the medical people telling him that Maine pitching would not cause additional harm to his shoulder Manuel doesn't want to risk it for Maine's sake and indicated that Maine would not get in any games. ] "I just don't like anybody pitching young with anything," Manuel said. "That's just my hang-up. It's nobody's hang-up but mine." "Let me put that this way, I think that John Maine worked so hard to come back and be a part of this. For me, the reward is to activate him. Now, how I use him might be questionable."