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OK, I'll get off my soapbox now. Time for some non-Pirates related baseball headlines.

Curt Schilling is outraged that Palmeiro "sat next to me and lied." What a pompous, self righteous ass. This was a guy that a year ago considered the painkiller marcaine a "miracle" to help him pitch. And he certainly didn't stop anyone from thinking that his iodine soaked sock was a rag filled with his own sweat and blood (check the accounts if you can find them, that spot was like 80% iodine, and I'm not questioning Schilling's performance in the playoffs because it certainly was memorable). I suppose if Raffy was between McGwire and Canseco at the hearing we shouldn't be as offended as we are by his lie in the presence of St. Curt.

Meanwhile in Baltimore Sidney Ponson picked up another DUI. Can Aruba un-knight someone?

And on the Pirates front, Ed Eagle identifies Rick White and Dave Duncan as the source of last night's spat. White felt that La Russa should have approached him about the pitch, not Duncan. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Cardnilly) calls the whole thing "silly" and characterizes Gerald Perry as "landing a punch to Dave Duncan's jaw." It looked kind of like a push to me, but whatever. The whole thing really is "silly" at best, that I can agree with. Dejan's account, for those interested, is here. Keeping with non-fight related Pirates news, Duke will in fact miss a start, and will probably be kept on a leash from here on out. Tonight we have Dave Williams and Matt Morris on the mound. Morris is right at home in PNC where he's 6-0. Dave Williams, meanwhile, is 3-5 with a 6.15 ERA at home. What say we shift this game to Busch?