Thought maybe some of you guys missed this story.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/2009/09/16/20090916spt-dbnotes.html

SAN DIEGO - The Diamondbacks still are probably at least a few weeks away from knowing whether right-hander Jarrod Parker can help them next season, but the club's top prospect took a step in the right direction this week.

Cleared to begin a throwing program on Monday, Parker played catch Tuesday from 45 feet, farm director Mike Berger said.

On a side note.  I went to the game last Saturday and  happened to notice all the Brandon Webb McFarlane toys on sale from like 22 bucks or so to 6 dollars, I wonder if that shows something about the near future.  It certainly would be bad to have Parker and Webb gone but personally I'd rather have Webb resigned and the D-Backs keep Parker in the minors.  They already messed up Upton coming up too soon although he seems fine now, I just hope Parra doesn't feel an early call up set back.  The Schlereth call up this soon was definitely a bad move.  I don't even think I'd be a big fan of Parker starting in the rotation as a 4/5 starter but I'm glad to know he hasn't completely blown out his arm.

Alright on the game thread this is the quote: "
 Jon Rauch came in and allowed a leadoff double, then the next hitter smacked the ball even harder to right-field. It hit right on the top of the fence, yet inexplicably, instead of bouncing over the fence for a game-tying homer, to blow Doug's win, shot almost straight up into the air and came down into Justin Upton's glove."  Alright it's my understanding that A. you can't trap a ball or catch it off an object ie a wall.  And B. If a ball hits the yellow line its a dinger.  Obviously I'm a huge dbacks fan so its very fortunate that it wasn't called a homer, but why on earth wasn't the play reviewed?  They just brought in this reviewing homer calls system in and it wasn't reviewed.  Why not?

Also, the AAA snakepit league is still not gettin any attention why not?!?!

I hate to think that one of my most beloved sites in the universe has a defunct AAA fantasy league.  I woulda killed to be in the "bigs" this year but I had to settle for the minors only to find out no one really cares anymore.  It seems to me only 3 or 4 people update rosters/trade/respond and I feel like I'm Augie asking Hinch to start me full time.  For anyone that reads this and is in the league/was partially in the league and would like to be involved again, please for the love of God make our AAA experience more fun than those Dbacks from the real AAA that are being snubbed a big league callup more enjoyable.  ARGH!!!!  btw dodgers blow.