I'm calling it an "update" because it's not really important or late-breaking OMG-type news.

I live in Miami and play in a Sunday baseball league with a bunch of Cubans. Among these Cubans is Joel Perez. He was one of the players that came on the raft with Yunel and was mentioned in that one article last year (The guy with the Yunel t-shirt)

Well, Yunel makes his home here in Miami and often works out with Joel and others on the team. Word is that Yunel has gotten bigger. The exact quote is "Escobar esta cuadradito". This means literally "Escobar is a little square". ... but it actually means "Escobar has put on muscle and looks very strong".

My inital reaction was to be grateful he wasn't traded. Sounds like he will put up big numbers this year. ..... then again, it might backfire like it did with FYF when he went all "country-strong" on us.

Anyhoo, don't be surprised to see Yunie sporting a few more pounds of muscle this spring.

it's the bottom of the 9th in game 3 but just the thought of the Plug pitching game 4 in the playoffs is the best joke I've heard all year long. hahaha. C'mon Corpas. End this right now or else the entire nation will laugh their butts off in Game 4. Man I hate Redman. blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

well, then again... I don't know how much FUN it'll be but I have an interesting thing we can do.

The Braves will finish around 4 or 5 games out of first place in the NL EAST. What I propose is that however many games out the Braves are at the end of the season we pick the games that REALLY stick out that we should've won. So 5 games out means we come up with 5 specific games that us Braves fans knew would come back to haunt us.

For example, I would certainly include that one game against the Marlins where Hudson had a shutout into the 9th and things took a turn for the worse. Another one would be the same exact situation.. except when it happened in Minnesota. So start mentioning "memorable" games from this season to see which ones make the cut so we can wallow in self-pity.

Braves still have a shot here. Here's hoping that the Teixeira song being played live at Turner Field tonight brings the team some new found motivation and a little pop in their bats.

Technically the Braves are still in it until the last week of the season but can anyone really picture the Braves making the playoffs without taking 5 of 6 from the Mets and Phillies in this current homestand?

hahaha! Evil Davies gave up #500 to A-Rod ... then Good Davies comes around and shuts out the Twins.

baaahahaha. I bet next start he gives up 6 runs in 2 innings before you can say Dan Quisenberry quizzed the quintessential quintuplets.

anyhoo, I'm still kind of pulling for him and Tony Peña as well. hope those kids turn out alright.

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