Heard via Churchill today that pending a physical, former Diamondback and most recently Washington National, Alex Cintron's going to be joining the organization.  And now for those of you who want real links rather than "rumors" from Jason, it was posted on Bleeding Blue and Teal, who point to the Rainiers' Twitter account as the official source. 

Will Cintron help the big league club?  Who knows, it's pretty doubtful really, but for all intents and purposes this seems like another grab of cold spaghetti from the freely available talent pool.

Good gravy after today's defensive debacle, it's very clear the M's need some major help.  I wonder if BJ Ryan, too, might be useful in a LOOGY role or something.  What a Charile Foxtrot this team is at times...

At the park (Cheney Stadium) yesterday, Churchill got word that the Rainiers are going to actually have some home games broadcast.  He mentioned it publicly in his chat today, and the word was distributed via press release at Cheney Stadium yesterday.

I'm still trying to get more info, but it'll be broadcast on Comcast Sports Net, which of course is only available to Comcast subscribers.  I'll see if I can find it and DVR it.  But Hyphen gets the start on Friday, in Cheney, and if you have Comcast, you'll probably be able to see it live.

To remind people - they added a huge video scoreboard this year, and they've had cameras placed all over the park.  I'd LOVE for them to really build a CF camera well (rather than the rented lift truck thing they use now) so I could go hang out up there and snap pix from CF.  I imagine the TV coverage will be pretty raw, but at least it's SOMEthing...

I wonder if Brandon Morrow has stock in the Duncan Toy Company -- in some ways he's been treated like a Yo-Yo...

Buried in a site that's still struggling to get off the ground, but has former P-I beat reporter John Hickey in its arsenal of writers, we find this little nugget:

    And, in fact, Wakamatsu won’t rule out moving Morrow back into the rotation, which is where he was supposed to be when the spring started.

    ``I’m not ready to go there yet,’’ the manager said.

(Seattle Post Globe article on Aardsma taking over the closer's gig).

Okay, so maybe this is a little bit of a stretch (and bad journalism) -- but you can't deny that a non-denial sometimes works itself into an affirmation.  Or at least hope...

So, we all remember Wilson "Mr. Coffee" Valdez, right?

Apparently, he's being called up to the New York Mets. With Reyes going on the DL, they needed a shortstop, so they acquired him for cash from the Indians, where he was hitting .198 for Triple-A Columbus. Here's the link.

Jeez, it really must be hard to find shortstops on the scrap heap.  As bad as Yuni is, certainly there's someone out there that can be pulled off the AAA scrap heap that would at least be slightly above replacement-level...

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The less-famous DiMaggio, Dom, passed away this morning.  He was 92.  I didn't know that he'd helped start the AFL football team that eventually became the New England Patriots.  Huh...

I wonder what it was like to have been Marilyn Monroe's brother-in-law.

I also wonder which trio was better.  The DiMaggios (Vince, Joe, Dom), the Alous (Matty, Felipe, Jesus) or the Molinas (Yadier, Jose, & Benji).

Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4151140