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Giles has been claimed on waivers meaning he likely won't be dealt. Link.

Manny Being Manny 1-1.

You'll be able to get Future's game tickets in all liklihood, but All-Star Game and HR Derby tickets will be hard to come by. My guess is what is available to the general public will be offered to Cardinal season ticket holders first, leaving very little. Usually, they do a lottery style sign up for the few remaining and SRO tickets. I went to the ASG in Houston in 2004. I was able to get tickets by buying a 27 game mini plan. I then sold off the mini plan...I lost some money on the tickets, but I still did ok considering I ended up with tickets to the ASG and HR derby at face. As far as price, we were way up high in MMP, and our tickets were still like $75 face value. People were selling tickets to the game for $500 or more.

Magic number ----> 43.

I'd like to move Sori to RF, Fuku to CF, and sign Dunn. =P~ Yes please. How about Milton Bradley? Everyone on his board has wanted him for the past few years, and I think he only signed a 1 year deal with Texas. If I was sure Bradley's knees would hold up enough for him to play RF, sure. But he's played a lot of DH this year and has still been limited some.

I'd like to move Sori to RF, Fuku to CF, and sign Dunn. =P~

I'll take 2 of 3, but hoping for a sweep.

I'd like to see more of that.

Hit parade continues.

Soto with the sac fly. 11-4.

Backe is ticked off! :lol:

Heres the details as we know, during the Oakland/Texas game in the 4th inning Sean was in the middle of his windup when time was suddenly given to the hitter. Sean halted his motion and held onto the ball, not a good idea as a pitchers windup is one of the most violent actions and not natural. I was watching this game and knew that this wasn't good and asked Sean about it and he stated he was okay. Sean is a "warrior" when it comes to pitching and I swear his arm would have to be falling off to miss a start. I was a bit concerned over his past three starts as the walks started to add up and his control was off. It wasn't until I watched the Toronto game this past week that I suspected he was hurt. When he was taken out he informed the coaching staff that his shoulder was bothering him and tuesday morning he was on a plane back to Oakland. I just spoke with him after the results of his MRI and shows "no damage to the rotator cuff or the labrum". Great news but what did happen is that Sean pulled a muscle and hasn't given it the proper time to heal. I can't say anything about a trip to the DL as Sean is eager to get back and understands he will most likely miss a start. He will undergo Physical therapy and it will be up to Sean as to when he gets back out on the field. Of course me being the cautious parent and knowing Sean have told him to take the proper amount of time to heal this muscle and not do anything stupid!!!! In short this means Sean will try to be back on the field in the shortest amount of time but hoping coaching staff convinces him otherwise.. :yahoo: Congrats on the good news that it's only a pulled muscle and no damage to the labrum or rotator cuff. Here's hoping that Sean gets healed up and is back on the mound as soon as possible.

Fukudome singles. 10-4. 100 pitches for Backe.

Backe approaching 100 pitches.

Bases juiced again. Cooper is just hanging Backe out to dry.

94 pitches for Backe and he's not out of the 4th.

I hear the roast beef is wonderful.

Edmonds flies to CF. Lee goes to third.

Ramirez singles and 87 pitches for Backe.

One of my friends who is an Astros fan says Backe is her favorite player. I always ask her why she won't just choose a player who doesn't suck.

The ump telling Backe to STFU. :lol:

Lee leads off with a walk. 82 pitches for Backe.

Little floater makes me think of something else which is probably appropriate since Marquis is pitching.

That was ugly.

and he's already at 77 pitches. He's going to be done soon enough.