But Amy didn't buy the data. She almost jumped off the sofa that night as the tired couple unwound before heading upstairs to bed. Her gaze was fixed on the lesions and black-and-blue marks, her greenish-blue eyes aflame. She took a closer look and began to tremble.

The knowledge she'd gleaned from her young career as a physician assistant, the miles walked through the corridors of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the immediate assumption of the worst possible outcome that had coursed through her blood since a childhood guided by caution: It all bellowed from within her. Those spots were not sun rashes or bug bites or cardboard cuts. They were not the laughable soon-to-fade products of an active Southern lifestyle. No, she knew too well what they were.

"Dave, those are petechiae and purpura," she said. "You could have ... "

She couldn't take her eyes off his legs. He couldn't keep her from crying as she said it.

"Leukemia."

You really should read the whole thing.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120416&content_id=28844170&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb&tcid=tw_article_28844170

Here is the offical root against the Angels / Angles Suck thread since the game has now started. 

Jackson  vs Saunders.

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Where do you think he will end up?

Personally,  I don't believe that he will go anywhere.  I just don't get any sense of urgency from the Blue Jays, and I think that he would actually resign with Toronto unlike the Tex deal.  I do know that JP is under a directive to cut payroll however. 

Links to rumor mongers:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9871032/MLB-trade-deadline-buzz:-Thursday%27s-edition

http://danny-knobler.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/8590096

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Will Carroll (Twitter)

Kevin Goldstein (Twitter)

Do we want to make this the generic last day rumor thread?

Here is the story from Grant.

http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/index.php/2009/06/04/eric-nadel-out-with-torn-retina/#respond

Rangers radio broadcaster Eric Nadel will be out of action for an indefinite period of time with a torn retina. He is currently in surgery in New York and will return to Texas after the surgery, but will have to be basically immobilized while the surgical area heals.

He is requesting people leave their well wishes in his comments, but I thought that this would be a good place as well.  It is going to be weird not hearing him call the games. 

Here is to hoping that he has a speedy recovery and is back in the booth shortly.

Here is the lineup for the Rangers tonight.

2B Ian Kinsler, LF David Murphy, 3B Michael Young, DH Hank Blalock (1 HR vs. Verlander), CF Marlon Byrd, RF Nelson Cruz, 1B Chris Davis, C Taylor Teagarden, SS Elvis Andrus and pitching for the Rangers. … LHP Matt Harrison.

This is a little troubling since he was hitting during Francisco's simulated game earlier today.

Here is the link to EG's lineup.

What's the over under on Ranger K's tonight - say 9.

Per Rodney's comment maybe the O/U should be 12.5 instead of 9.