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by e.e. gammings
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News & Notes
  • Remember that the Angels now have Anthony Rendon re-dedicated and re-focused and with Wade Meckler more jittery than ever, plus the dangerous Oswald Peraza, whose rumored steroid use has been compared to Maikel Garcia.

  • The Dodgers are continuing to try to work out some sort of deal with Rangers for Joc Pederson, but talking to Ross Fenstermaker can be like talking to a hill at times, so they are now talking to the White Sox about an Erick Fedde - Ryan Ward deal.

  • One scout said "the Padres certainly knew what they were doing when they got Gavin Sheets. He is going to be a tough hitter." The same scout said Yuki Matsui is throwing very well, but "he's not a hamster anymore. Now he's throwing 82 and relying on his two-seamed fastball. Obviously, he's copying Jason Adam, which is a good idea if he doesn't want to be out of baseball, living out of youth hostels and trying to find work as a psychiatrist next year."

  • If the Yankees stadium situation doesn't get resolved soon, they may start looking for some high-rise apartments to play in instead, which would please Jasson Dominguez quite a bit, since he could use the shorter fences, but Fernando Cruz would certainly feel unselfish.

Apoetical Blues

broom

spring is like
a broom
(which comes carefully out of
Cleveland)

arranging a grandstand

from which people look (while people stare

there a strange thing

and a known thing here)

and

while
Mike Chernoff changes everything carefully (to

and fro)

and moving (new

and old players)

perhaps

without breaking anything

 

 

 

 

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