You've got to be kidding me

Honestly, I think some time on the DL would be beneficial for Oliver Perez, but not because HE BROKE HIS TOE KICKING A LAUNDRY CART. I have to go back to work, and I'm very angry, but I will have more commentary on this one a bit later.

UPDATE (2:44 PM): I've been thinking about this some more. Aside from the abject humiliation of having our best pitcher break his toe on a laundry cart (and hey, as Pirate fans we've endured Operation Shutdown, the Raul Mondesi incident, Kevin Young and Pat Meares' contracts, if we can take anything, it's abject humiliation), this is a good thing. And here's why:

1. It's Ian Snell time, and this is a very good thing.
2. Oliver Perez is not healthy, no matter what anyone tells you. This off time may give his arm a chance to recover a bit (though if I was the secretary of Dr. James Andrews, I'd still be keeping a date open around Decemberish to bring Mr. Perez down to Birmingham).
3. The call up of McLouth is an interesting one (see below), but it's more or less a statement by the front office that Perez has been our worst pitcher (or at the very least, our least efficent pitcher) to date. In fact, without him in the rotation, we need one less reliever.
4. One less reliever means Vogelsong might get some meaningful innings. Some people may think this is a bad thing, but I don't think Vogelsong has gotten a fair shake this year. He's got really good stuff and I think if he's given the chance he can be a very good reliever.
5. Littlefield gets more time to mull over offers for Kip Wells and Mark Redman rather than rushing one of them out of town so he can get Snell in the rotation.
   

So of course, this begs the question, what does the McLouth call up mean? Well, it's bad news for someone, and that someone is probably Nate McLouth. See, McLouth is a lefty, and if there's one thing we have a ton of, it's left handed outfielders. This means he's not taking at bats away from Restovich (dammit). So either McLouth takes at bats away from Tike Redman (which would be too good to be true) or, well, I'll just get the formalities out of the way.

Nate McLouth, Bobby Hill. Bobby Hill, Nate McLouth. Get used to each other, you'll be seeing a lot of one another for the time being buried on the end of the bench.