Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Marte out

With ESPN's entire focus going on March Madness and the fact that the PG and Pirates.com both apparently forgot that Damaso Marte is in fact a Pittsburgh Pirates, it's pretty easy to miss the fact that Marte's been dropped off the Dominican's WBC roster for the final round due to a shoulder problem (I missed it completely, thanks to commenter Murphy for the tip). It's not really shocking given his performance thus far in the tournament (awful except for his first appearence), and he's coming back to the 'Burgh to get it looked at, but it doesn't really sound good.