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SOMETHING TO OINK ABOUT It appears a blood culture is going to send Vicente Padilla wheezing his way into baseball infamy.The Texas Ranger right-hander is not going down for steroids. Rather, he’s the first Major Leaguer diagnosed with the H1N1 virus—AKA the dreaded “Swine Flu.”The 31-year old won’t be the last ball player to contract the infection that’s affected close to 400 people worldwide. After all, locker rooms are breeding grounds for all sorts of fungus, fuzz, and algae.Case in point, the influences of influenza led to the postponement of a Pacific Coast League game Friday night in Utah between the Portland Beavers and Salt Lake Bees.We won’t have to wait until pigs fly before another big leaguer takes ill of swine flu.So, how exactly did Padilla attract the nasty, pig-dubbed bugs?Even if he traveled to his hometown of Chinandega over the All-Star break—a 4.67 ERA rarely gets you the fans' nod—the likelihood of ...