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This is a couple days late, but Billy and Zeke of Romo Phone Home saw a particular Mr. G. Ogden Nutting at the All-Star Game, as apparently MoleMan decided to come out of his layer and actually see what this new fangled "base ball" is all about.

Also, via Romo, is a thread at OnlyBucs.net in which a Kevin McClatchy interview in the Pittsburgh Business Times is discussed. This one isn't for the faint of heart.

ESPN.com lists their top 10 big contract busts of 2006 and Jeromy Burnitz is #8. But, you know, we can't afford the compete with bigger market teams.

Regular commenter Murphy was also at the game last night, and sitting in rather nice seats to boot. They were, in fact, prime "Jeff Cox heckling seats."

In today's Pirate Notebook (PG version), there is discussion of presenting Freddy Sanchez with a extension for his upcoming arbitration years and it sounds like Freddy probably wouldn't hang the Pirates out to dry over the contract. Dejan also talks about the lineup switch from last night, moving Freddy to the 3 slot and dropping Casey to five. It makes sense to not have Casey on the bases in front of Bay and Sanchez, but it's still insane to have Jack Wilson batting 2nd, even with last night's three hits. When McLouth and Wilson bat 1 and 2, we essentially start our lineup in the three hole.