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I'm also really excited for Christian Bethancourt, and I think Julio Teheran is going to be awesome if he doesn't get hurt. It's a great time to be a Braves fan.

The Oakland Athletics just signed their catcher Kurt Suzuki to a four year contract. Finally, someone decided that the team needs to have some continuity and that they cannot keep letting all the young talent leave.

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This'll be fun to watch. Kind of a big deal, these two.

Congratulations are in order for Matt Garza's no-hitter at Tropicana last night. This was also the first no hitter for the Rays in their franchise history. A sweep against the Yankees this weekend would be fucking awesome.

Don't forget about Mauer's 5 hits and 7 RBI's. A performance like that is far more uncommon than a no hitter. I think I saw that there were over 100 no hitters in the same time span as there were 23 5 hit/7 RBI (or better) offensive performances. Great night for both of them.

Look's like the Phils locked up Roy Oswalt. I pretty happy because they got him to waive that 16 million that he was getting in 2012.

I would be doing flips if the Phils were in first place and had a healthy line up, Halladay, Oswalt and Hamels is a nasty three man rotation. However we are still going to have to fight to win the NL East or squeak in on the Wild Card.

It makes me happy to see the Phillies continued commitment to getting talent, despite a bad season this makes me happy. I was a little let down when the Phils fired the batting coach (Milt Thompson) clearly they were hitting like shit but it seemed silly to blame one man. Because of his popularity with the players it felt more like management getting rid of the players favorite toy.

Unfortunately for Rubén Amaro, Jr, he lives or dies with Oswalt. If Oswalt stinks up the joint RA will be packing his bags, if he does well he could get forgiven for the "Cliff Lee incident."

Like Hamels, though, Oswalt can't survive on poor run support like Halladay has. I'm sure it was nerves last night, so I have faith he'll perform the rest of the season. Problem is, it's the bullpen and the offensive injuries that have been the bigger problem. Guess there were no solid offensive second-tier utility guys out there.

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I am posting this for any Cubs fans out there. I am collecting names and available supplies for the bunker. Said bunker will be our home while Cubs are so pitiful the French are calling them pussies. Pirates fans are welcome as well. Woodford Reserve is the initiation fee.

Big "brawl" at the Cardinals/Reds game last night.

Good to see some fire from the home team.

The quote that started it all between the Reds and Cardinals, from the Reds' Brandon Phillips.



If I was one of the reporters around him, my follow-up question would've been, "so how do you feel about the Cardinals?"

And then he promptly went 2-14 in the series as the Cardinals swept the Reds in Cincy. Sit on it Phillips! Go Cards.

Yet another possible no hitter going on right now for the Blue Jays' Shaun Marcum, against the A's. He's given up 2 walks and one guy reached on an error, but still no hit's in the 7th inning.

And with that, I'm sure I just jinxed it and he'll give up a hit to the next batter he faces.

edit: first batter of the 7th inning hits a homerun... The jinx strikes again.

Vin Scully is the fucking man. The reason you know there is no God is because if there were, Vin Scully would be immortal.

How can the Phillies be so awful against Houston?

The run support given to Cole Hamels is flat out embarrassing. 31 innings and only one fucking run.