Just saw this in my email, looks like he'll be starting Saturday and Sunday down in Peoria. Good to see him getting eased back in, instead of just stuck back at 3rd with the big club.

Well, maybe not directly, but they filed today. Looks like this is just a step in selling the team to Nolan Ryan and his group - very similar to what TribCo did with the Cubs.

Daily Dish has finally gotten around to posting the Cubs projections... it looks like they're a little under what the BCB community projected, but they look pretty good. Four hitters with 20+ home runs would be nice. I think their W/L on pitchers is a little low in some cases (they're saying most of our pitchers will be just over .500) but the ERA's look good. Take a peek if you're interested.

So 2K Sports (in a sad effort to sell their inferior video game) is offering $1,000,000 to the first player to throw a perfect game. They're touting their new pitching system as the most realistic ever, and saying pitching a perfect game in their game will be as difficult as the real thing. Maybe they should have given the money away to the first unassisted triple play? My prediction: this happens within an hour of the game being released, there's a huge fight because multiple players accomplished it (I'd guess over 100) and the retract the whole thing.

Just in case you hadn't heard, Bears DE Gaines Adams was found dead at 26 this morning. Very, very sad. Link to our friends over at Windy City Gridiron.

Just the wrong side of town...

SI's Jon Heyman is reporting Jake Peavy traded to White Sox for minor leaguers... you've got to be kidding me.

It looks like the Chief's have found a (temporary) replacement for John Vitters. I just got an email from the Chiefs and confirmed it on their site. Starting with Friday's game, Aramis Ramirez will begin his rehab assignment in Peoria. According to the Chiefs, he will play in Friday, Saturday and Sunday's games.

Very good news for the crushed Peoria fans who recently lost Josh Vitters with his promotion to Daytona.

I had no idea this was even going on, but Mel Hall was convicted of Statutory Rape and sentenced to 45 years behind bars for the rape of a 12-year-old girl whom who coached on a basketball team in Texas.

Hall played for the Cubs from 1981-1984, and retired in 1996 with 134 career home runs, and ranks 484 on the all-time Home Runs list.. The accusations came out in 1999, and there was apparently another victim involved, however she withdrew her claim. Hall will serve a minimum of 22 1/2 years before he is eligible for parole. I'm sure there will be an appeal.

This is nuts. I didn't see the incident, and can't find any video (anybody have it...?), but this "he said, she said" crap between players and umps needs to stop. Why can't they just handle this stuff behind closed doors where it belongs? If I went around my place of business talking all sorts of crap about my fellow employees I'd probably just get terminated... but these umps and players just seem to run their mouths for fun. I don't know who's in the right here, but either way it's kind of sad and it's just going to end up getting Lilly suspended...

So apparently this idiot wrote and article saying Theriot doesn't use steroids... disproving accusations of approximately no one, only to increase his own popularity. In his article, Telander uses Theriot as an example of how no one is immune to the accusations of steroid use. I'm sorry, but if you're writing an article talking about how no one is safe... WHY WOULD YOU BLINDLY ACCUSE someone? Idiot. Go away.

Is this guy serious? First of all, that pitch didn't even hit Braun, and then Braun decided it was a good idea to stare at Demps all the way down first. Maybe they should probe Braun's showboating after home runs?

"The league frowns on people throwing at people's heads," Macha told reporters this morning. "I don't know if Bob Watson has looked at it or not. But I don't think that's a good idea, throwing at people's heads."

Don't forget that Theriot was drilled later in the game... if Macha wants Watson to look at this game, and the incidents that followed, he should be prepared for action to be taken for retribution. That's all I have to say about this. What a tool.

I'm not sure how much he updates it, and it appears to only have 2 posts, but the post from April 23rd has some great insight to what it's like to travel with the AAA team... AND it has a fantastic title: "30 is the new 20."

Looks like Z is on his way to the 15-day DL and Bobby Scales (IF, Switch Hitter) is on his way up from Iowa. I would imagine Heilman or The Shark will get a start or two.

Well that's one blow-hard down... Joe Morgan, John Miller... TAKE THE HINT.

You know your team is really in trouble when your top prospects are involved in baby snatching stories. Looks like one of the Pirates top prospects wives was accused of stealing a 2-month old child. Here's the fun parts, Jose Tabata, who is 20 years old, is married to Amalia Tabata... who is 43!!!! Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Abslutely hilarious, but very very cool read... my favorite part...

DEROSA: I'm going to set a scene for you: Kerry Wood on the mound, Game 7 of the World Series in Wrigley Field. Ground ball to second, DeRosa throws it to D-Lee, game over, Cubs are World Series champs. What happens?

DEMPSTER: Pandemonium. I'd say the top of the Budweiser building blows off. People storm the field. Huge chunks of ivy are ripped off the walls. Police cars are turned over on Addison, on Waveland, on Sheffield, and you can't walk within a 45-block radius of Wrigley Field because people will be drinking there for seven to 10 days. What a great feeling.

Awesome interview from Sunday morning's Hit and Run program on the score with Eric Patterson. EP discusses his journey to the majors, comparisons to his brother (talking about who is actually faster) as well as his 3-4 performance on Saturday.