Breaking News: Marlins Acquire Armando Benitez

Good news coming out of the managers office this morning. Fredi Gonzalez, on the heels of the Armando Benitez deal, has announced that Kevin Gregg is still his closer and will remain in that position for the foreseeable future.

Analysis published in The Cheater's Guide To Baseball indicates that Bonds' performance was affected by his cyclying on and off steroids. In 2002 Bonds slugging percentage was 345 points higher during hypothetical "on" times and his stats followed the pattern over the whole season. They didn't follow such a pattern in 1997 or 1998.

This guy seems to think so. He talks about the movie, The Fan, starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, in which a free-agent slugger comes to San Francisco in the early 90s after signing a monster contract. Sound familiar? Fortunately for Barry, he did not struggle like Snipes. All he did was win the MVP his first season and help the G-Men win 100 games. Interesting article though...

Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants may be in the worst spot for any top tier starting pitcher. After matching up well against Orlando Hernandez and the Mets last night, but losing 4-2 as El Duque threw a gem as well, Cain finds himself 2-5 in 10 starts. The righty has a 3.43 era. in his 10 starts this season, has 48 k's in 65 innings, and has allowed more than 4 earned...

I was reading earlier about Coors Field and their humidor. (Amazing what you can find on Wikipedia.) If you look into Dolphin Stadium information, on the other hand, no humidor is mentioned. How have we lived this long without? ;)For anyone who doesn't know, a humidor is a box, basically, created to keep humidity levels constant, often used for storing cigars (we here in Florida...

Yesterday, reporters asked Barry Bonds whether he felt Alex Rodriguez's vocal turn around third Wednesday night was a "dirty" or "bush" play. "Go ask Alex. Leave me out of it," the slugger replied in typical brusque fashion. When told that the Blue Jays were fuming over the play, Bonds replied, "Too bad. Get over it." I guess you could...