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Frayed Knot wrote: Nymr83 wrote: After the Buster Posey injury last year, you'd think MLB would examine these plays. Also, please throw at a Philly. Nothing to examine. It was a clean play. There's certainly a movement out there to make an adjustment in the definition of what is clean.

Making Papelbon work, anyhow. Particularly cool in game one of a series.

Nymr83 wrote: After the Buster Posey injury last year, you'd think MLB would examine these plays. Also, please throw at a Philly. Nymr is concerned about the health and safety of MLB ballplayers. Nymr is contemptuous of the health and safety of MLB ballplayers.

Props to any and all Phillie phans who gave Thole a hand there.

Josh Thole is a hero for all Americans. Get Laynce Nix and they're out of this.

It was dreadfully embarrassing. Aimed smack dab center between the eyes of AARP members, this was your cinematic alternative if you felt yourself too mature and tasteful to follow the masses to The Avengers. It's a gross insult to the mature and tasteful, even if they're too dull to notice it (more on that below). Talented if wizened actors, the colors of India, the deft and droll touch of British filmmaking. What could go wrong? Too, too much, that's what. This is the exact sort of thing that the British were good at, until they realized they were good at it. They ran out of E.M. Foster books to adapt and churned out market-driven garbage like this. Did you know Indian food gives you the shits? Funny stuff, right? Well, it knocked them dead at the elitist wealthy boomer-centered Bethesda cinema I visited this weekend. Me? I wanted to stand up and scream at them. Did you know that there's somewhere in the cinematic world where someone can respond to an announcment that somebody is gay with "You mean... like jolly?" and elicit audience laughter? I was outraged at them all. To the extent that the characters are drawn at all, Bill Nighy is a civil service retiree harried by his haradin wife, Judy Dench is supposed to be some sort of sheltered housewife who uses her widowhood to search for herself, and Maggie Smith (God bless her) is utterly humiliated as an openly racist middle-class hip-replacement candidate. (After refusing to be examined by a black doctor, she motions to him scrubbing up at the sink, and says, "'E can scrub all 'e wants, 'e's never gonna get that color off.") God help anybody who laughs at this. God help them when they ask themselves why the hell they laughed. But you know, they'll all redeem themselves, in the magic of In'ja. They all move there because their retirement funds dried up too much to afford retirement in Britain (but none of them because of the global recession, which might have, you know, spoke to one or two people). The country itself is portrayed sort of ridiculously, with their young hotel operator full of wacky Indian philosophy, an untouchable inexplicably allowed to handle food, and couples somehow unashamedly and openly make out in the streets. The religious culture of the place is referred to in passing, but always exists off-camera. What India is this? When our pretty packed house of fellow moviegoers clapped at the end, our jaws dropped. We briefly considered seeing if we could catch a late showing of Avengers to clear our palates. Get me Bill Nighy on line two. He and I need to have words.

Good to see the Phils wasting their emotional energy on the Werthless Nats.

Torres, cf Nieuwenhuis, lf Wright, 3b Duda, rf Murphy, 2b Davis, 1b Turner, ss* Thole, c Niese, sp *First big-league start at shortstop.

smg58 wrote: The sooner we see him, the better. He doesn't even have to be that good to be a vast upgrade. Depending on whether you believe what we'd otherwise get from the slot would be that bad, based on the three-start sample.

I'll just guess that they have baseball reasons for not choosing to put Beato on the 60-Day, though I may disagree. And I think I do.

The rationale for Valdespinmeister has going for him is 40-man-rosteriness.

Um, YEAH!

Um, YEAH!

Ken Davidoff ? @KenDavidoff Expect an official announcement shortly that the #Mets will host the 2013 #MLB All-Star Game. It's been locked in for over five years.

It wasn't an issue until now.

I remember a thread about his alleged mistreatment.

One option: Pedro Beato could get transferred to the 60-day DL, and be eligible to come off on June 5. Mejia is just about ready to see game action. Another option is removing Schwin.

Pelfrey was slud onto the 60-man to add Rottino.

Wow. That's a lot of prison time in his future.

Sisler broke in as a pitcher. He'd continue to take the mound to bail his team out every three or four years for the rest of his career.

It's Terry's job to be patient where we are demanding, to make sure he still has a team standing in September. It's annoying, but I get it. Still kinda disappointing to see Batista instead of Hefner.

Ceetar wrote: ELIAS: Last player before Chris Davis to go 0-8 and be the winning pitcher in a game was HOFer Rube Waddell, July 4, 1905 PHI Athletics. It's all about the Rubes.

Has he been added? With that gallery of options, it would seem inevitable.

Ceetar wrote: and in Young's shoulder of course. Yes, that's an assumption that was already implcitly outlined in the post I was responding to, with "if that comes to pass."