LF Carl Crawford loudly confronted DH Pat Burrell in the Rays clubhouse before batting practice Wednesday, prompting manager Joe Maddon to meet privately with both players.

"It was nothing,'' Maddon said. "Honestly I talked to both parties, everything's good.''

Crawford declined to elaborate; Burrell was not available pre-game.

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090916&content_id=7002836&vkey=news_tb&fext=.jsp&c_id=tb

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The Buccaneers announced today that they have dismissed Offensive Coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski.

Quarterbacks Coach Greg Olson has been promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach.

Jagodzinski was named the Buccaneers offensive coordinator on January 29, 2009. He came to Tampa Bay after two years (2007-2008) as the head coach at Boston College. Prior to his stint at Boston College, Jagodzinski served as the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers in 2006 and spent the two seasons (2004-2005) prior to that on the staff of the Atlanta Falcons.

http://buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=7280&trid=home

Oh my

First, contract two teams. Baseball almost did this a few years ago and it might be time to look at it again. We're back to "less is more." Which two teams go is an entirely separate issue, so let's not get bogged down in that argument here. For the purposes of this discussion, we contracted the two Florida teams -- so, Marlins and Rays, you're gone. That leaves 28 teams, which Buck has organized into four, seven-team divisions. There is no more American League and National League. That idea is archaic and goes away as well.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn

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A scout who watched Billy Wagner throw has "no doubt" that Wagner could help a team win. The Rays and Marlins are thought to have interest in Wagner, but neither team would be likely to give up much of a prospect unless the Mets picked up salary. 

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/08/stark-on-wagner-crawford.html

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Now... it's Luke Bailey

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Davis/Jennings/Fun

GameDay: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_08_02_indaaa_dubaaa_1

MiLB.tv - http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/media/player/mp_tpl.jsp?w=reflector%3A17091&w_id=110972&pid=gen_video&type=v_sub&_mp=1

Jennings, CF

Brignac, SS

Weber, LF

Ruggiano, RF

Richard, 1B

Hughes, DH

Johnson, 2B

Jaso, C

Mateo, 2B

Davis, P

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I'm sure most of you know this already, and I wouldn't doubt it if this was already posted but...

http://blog.timesunion.com/sportsrankings/1221/run-support-for-your-pitcher/