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You've been Colonectomied.

Oh, man. That was enough for me.

Z'out.

Man, the Phils look awful right now.

AJ Burnett, you've been Little d'd.

Byrd doesn't joke around out there.

I may be crazy or paranoid, but Doc Gooden doesn't sound as good tonight as he had been.

d'Kong76 wrote: Dominicans aren't black, just ask one! I was thinking, "Dominicans aren't black, just ask Torii Hunter."

Ashie62 wrote: Tulo is injured more than Reyes was.. #1 Well, that depends on how you frame the question, I imagine. He certainly is good more than Reyes was.

Ceetar wrote: I sometimes wonder if like ESPN whispers to a writer "hey, we need something to talk about, start up a trade rumor for us. big guy." Except we're days from the trade deadline. Nobody has to fabricate anything in order to pursue a story.

Monte Irvin, Giants.

I doubt this, but is Felix Mantilla our Boston Brave?

More reputable sources (Jeff F. Passan, are you reputable?) continue to run with reports of the Mets making serious inquiries about serious shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. I'm too old to get excited by anything less than a bird in the hand, but I guess I hear gears moving. What do you think is going to happen with the Mets and this oft-injured Hall of Fame-quality talent? [fimg=600:1hghcp60]http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.607988904863532519&pid=15.1&P=0[/fimg:1hghcp60]

My position is that Girardi is gonna singlehandedly keep Posada out of the Hall of Fame, by cutting Jorge's career short as a player at the beginning, and as a manager at the end, both choices being questionable.

Ernie Banks, Cubs

Elston Howard, Yankees

Larry Doby, Indians

Pumpsie Green, Red Sox

"Do you want to trade places?" Howard asked the media after Sunday's game. "Do you want to see what it�s like? No, you don�t." Umm...

Let's start by saying that John McGraw at his best would have had a hard time keeping his head above water with the hand Torre was dealt in Queens. Good: Loyally and faithfully stuck with the vestiges of Gil Hodges' old coaching staff. Even rehired them when he took over in Atlanta. After Willie Mays was banned from holding an MLB job, he hired his old batterymate Bob Gibson, because he believed in the power of a legend on the bench. As with Jeter years later, he tried to develop Mazzilli into a captain in training. It didn't work, but there's a long history of good managers identifying a young player and infusing him with all the manager's philosophy, making him the embodiment of the manager and his expectations on the field and in the clubhouse, allowing the manager to stay out of folks' hair. Stengel did it with Berra. Hodges/Seaver. Valentine/Alfonzo. Was a willing and able face of a franchise, if a listing one. Bad: Consistently chose defense over offense up the middle, leaving the team with gaping holes in the lineup. Gaping. And I'm a Doug Flynn fan. Had too much faith in Alex Trevi�o's bat. Liked Trevi�o so much, in fact, that during a team slump, he tried to inject the lineup with offense by putting Alex behind the dish for a few days and moving Stearns to third. Probably unrelated, but Stearns hurt his elbow and was never the same. Allowed Gibson's assessment of Roger Clemens to be passed up the chain, leading the team to lowball him, and him to go to college. Was an early adopter of the designated-closer mentality, pitching Allen in late innings with a lead, and pitching Reardon when behind. Among other things, it probably led to the team selling Reardon below value.

Well, the best way to hurt Hamilton's campaign is to catch and pass his currently tanking team in the standings. Gotta get deGrom's fraction of an offensive WAR into the arithmetic when we measure him, though.

Wow. Who knew Ray Liotta was a world-class dick? Going from bar to bar shaming folks into ordering the top-shelf stuff.

Well, Rube Waddell really was old school. Biff Pocaroba. Chipper Jones/Chip Hale.