For any remaining Matt Murton fans out there, I found a little tiny blurb in yesterday's flood of information and disinformation from the winter meetings.  Seems Mr. Murton finally found a team that will give him playing time to prove he really does have skill.  Of course, to find this team he had to leave the North American continent.  The Hanshin Tigers of the Central League in Japan thought he was good enough to purchase his contract from Colorado.  Forgive me if this has already been posted, my internet connection is far too slow over here (Afghanistan) and I have far too little patience to have looked, so if I'm stepping on someone or recapping a recap I'm sorry and go ahead and blast me for it.  I would post a link, but I can't even remember under what pile of information I dug this up from.

If you saw these stats, who would you guess won the game?

Well, our stats are the first column and Cincinnati's are the second.  I actually finally got to watch the game and found that while the secondary did have its problems--poor coverage, bad angles to the ball and receivers--it was more our inability to get any pressure on the quarterback that killed us.  We actually should have won this game, damn.  Double damn, we lost in Vegas too.

I was at the Mariners/Royals game yesterday when I look in the field and who should be starting at short for the Ms but our (formerly) own Ronnie Cedeno.  The first play I saw to him he made a slick bare-handed fielding play and got the runner at first--not bad.  However, he found a way to be Ronnie Cedeno when it really counted.  On a sharp one-hopper with Coco Crisp on, Ronnie muffed the fielding attempt, allowing David DeJesus to reach and Crisp to score.  While the rest of his fielding was fine the rest of the game, his day at the plate was even worse with three swinging strike outs and I only saw him take two pitches in that span.  He was replaced by Yunnieski Betancourt in the 9th who promptly walked, making his offensive day that much better than Ronnie's immediately.  Maybe that Heilman trade wasn't such a bad idea after all.