normally, I'd quote a snippet from the piece, but I found this tidbit from a reader more telling:

"The only way fan sentiment is going to change for this team, right or wrong, is if ownership dumps money into it like Colangelo did, to completely rebuild the fan base all over again through purchased success. And that means winning.

The D-backs need to win if they want to stay relevant, and by doing that, they have to spend money. Simple as that. "

Oy Vey

Perhaps it's just the nature of the beast. The three-year, $30 million deal created expectations he was unable to meet, and everyone got frustrated.

But everyone can learn from this.

Some say the fans deserve partial blame for the contract, because they were the ones who pressured the team to hand it out. We don't buy it. The front office shouldn't let straw polls dictate roster decisions, especially when the fans' favorites can change so quickly. It seems this was a lesson learned the hard way.

"Gretzky's departure had been rumored as the bankruptcy court battle between Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie and the NHL over the sale of the financially troubled team dragged on."

About time?

More on this later today when I have full computer access.

What they did not know - and what the Diamondbacks believe they had no way of knowing, according to sources - was that Abreu and the Dodgers were nearing a settlement on a grievance filed in 2007 that would award him extra days of service time and could make him arbitration eligible in 2011 instead of 2012. .......................................
It's unclear what action the Diamondbacks will take at this point, as Garland already has pitched for the Dodgers. Teams can file grievances with Major League Baseball over disputed trades.

The sides agreed to a list of possible players to complete the deal, and the Diamondbacks could ask the Dodgers to amend the list in order to receive a player other than Abreu. Or the Diamondbacks could ask for cash to compensate for the difference in salary Abreu will earn during his arbitration seasons.

According to an ESPN.com report, Diamondbacks left-hander Doug Davis has been placed on waivers. It's not clear if he has been claimed or has cleared, or even when the 48-hour waiver period began. Diamondbacks officials would not confirm or deny the report. Once a player clears waivers he can be traded. He also could be traded to the team that claims him.

There's more about the team if you follow the link. this is all that was mentioned about DD. I don't have ESPN Insider either to verify other than the tease they give you to subscribe. It is mentioned in Buster Olney's Blog it says

OLNEY: Davis on waivers
Doug Davis | Diamondbacks
In his blog today, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney writes, "Heard this: Doug Davis of the Diamondbacks is currently on waivers, at a time...

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If this has been mentioned already (debunked or whatever) please delete, I've been seriously out of the loop on team news for the past week.

17th Perfect Game in MLB History. My brother is at the game.

Diamondbacks Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick said the club raised $50 million in a cash call to team investors earlier this year, a move that he said was designed as a safeguard against the slow economy.

"Most importantly, we want to continue to build the payroll," Kendrick said. "We want to be able to continue that at some modest level of growth going forward, and I didn't want to be caught in having to deal with payroll stress if we had revenue declines because of the economy. We do have revenue declines because of the economy and some probably attributed to the team not performing well."

"What's interesting is that Reynolds chose to share his feelings about his teammates to the media rather than address them during one of the many meetings the team has had where players have spoken or directly to the player or players he thought were responsible.

"When we have team meetings I don't say anything," Reynolds said. "I don't have a lot of time in this game. I just haven't felt like it was my place, but like I said I was pretty hot last night and when you're upset and you have things on your mind and you have an outlet to say it, it just all boiled over."

Count catcher Chris Snyder among those that was in agreement with Reynolds had to say.

"Everything that was said was dead on," Snyder said. "I think there's a lack of a lot of things. The main thing being heart. Guys around feel like they should be owed something, everything should be given to them, they don't have to fight, they don't have to compete. They just go out there, put a smile on their face on every first and 15th of the month and other than that it's ho hum. Winning doesn't matter as long as they get to the first and 15th they'll be happy.

"You can't play that way and expect to compete. We lack certain things, heart being one, at certain times brains and more times than not guts. Those are three things that are needed to win.""

not sure how this will come on on the board since it is a link to Facebook, but let me try it.

""The problem here is not the managerial thing," Davis said.

So what's the problem?

The problem is that Byrnes assembled a faulty bullpen. The problem is that veterans like Tony Clark, Eric Byrnes and Chad Tracy have given this team nothing. The problem is that there isn't much depth on this team, and there are too many guys in the room who aren't winners, who are resigned to losing and numb to failure.

A few still bad-mouth the manager, and Hinch knows they exist. Those players must be washed out."

Interesting....... can't believe it came from you know who.

"One possibility appears to be surgery to repair his labrum, a procedure that would require a nine-month rehab process.

But a decision has not been made as Webb is expected to seek a second opinion this week."

Probably doesn't come as a shock. Not a lot of detail in article.