Christian Guzman isn’t a bad option, per se, but at that price ($8 million), unless the Nationals cover most or all of that (which isn’t likely), I don’t think it’s worth it. Assuming Reyes is out the maximum the doctors are saying, that’s still only a few weeks into the season, and then he’d be relegated to bench duty (primarily). That’s a fairly steep price for a back-up guy on the bench.

I don’t see why there’s so much confusion surrounding Mejia, and now Martinez. Omar Minaya, the GM, said that Mejia will be starting in the Minor League. Jerry Manuel said that he wants Mejia in the bullpen. Being as that Omar is the GM, and has already expressed his preference and opinion, how/why is it that Jerry the manager seemingly has the ability to leapfrog the GM, in terms of player management? I mean, I understand that the manager fields the day-to-day team, and that he and the GM sit down to discuss call-ups/send-downs, signings, trades, the roster, and all of that, but normally, the GM outranks the manager, and that’s that, poo-poo on the manager if he feels otherwise. Omar’s expressed that he feels otherwise on both Mejia and Martinez. What the hell is going on?

I find Dave Doyle’s article to be fundamentally wrong in a few ways. The whole “it’s a young man’s game” is an argument that, really, I find kind of silly. Age doesn’t really matter- if you have talent, you have talent, and that’s that. He spends most of the article defending the decision to promote Mejia based on those grounds, and then addresses the main reason why most people don’t want to see him up north so quickly- his development- in a kind of post-script way, where he doesn’t really even use much evidence at all asides for his opinion to back up and defend his criticism of those who feel that promoting him too early will damage his future development. I’m all for understanding why people want to see him here, now, but that didn’t really do a convincing job at all.

The Tom Seaver rule, eh? I never realized that such a thing existed. And, I still learn every day how Tom Seaver really was, perhaps, one of the greatest pitchers ever. Of all time. And, it feels good every time. And, maybe I’m mean, but does anybody else want to see Strasburg get rocked, simply because of all of the hype surrounding him? He can be good next year, or in two years, but I want him to be absolutely dreadful when he first makes the Majors and is a rookie, just because of the media.

I don’t read, post at, or really even care about most Phillies websites, but “EVERYBODY HITS…WOOHOO!” is really an amazingly great name for one.

Where is Alex Cora to punch grission into their mouth corners? Does this void his contract?

i mean, yes, with Reyes out for a bit having extra help at SS isn’t a bad thing, but an 8 mil$ backup with a wOBA barely cracking .300 isn’t really a spectacular choice. If they eat a huge chunk of his contract or are willing to take one of our bad contracts I could condone it, but if we take on the full 8 mil i’m going to be slightly enraged.

“Aw, come on!”

has been claimed by the Indians, according to mets.com