Things to think about

We'll start with the big one, on Sunday John Perrotto mentioned in his "rumors" column (which I can only assume replaced his plog, whatever the hell that thing was) that the Nuttings are upset with Dave Littlefield and thinking of canning him after this contract is over, not for the poor product he's trotted out on the field this year, but rather for wasting their money. We can file this in the "I swear to God if you're f****** with me there's going to be trouble ahead, Johnny Boy" because I might be crazy but I honestly think that if a new (and good, Steve Phillips won't cut it) GM were to take the reigns of this team on October 2nd the Pirates could be a .500 team or better next year and in the National League, who knows what that means. Then again, in his chat yesterday Dejan indicates that he hasn't heard anything about Littlefield going anywhere.

The Stats Geek writes an Ode to Freddy today, not just to his high batting average or his slew of doubles, but also to his nearly Golden Glove. Yep, just about every reason we were given in March from the team as to why Freddy Sanchez shouldn't be a starter is down the drain at this point. And I still heard Greg Brown refer to third base as a weak position in the organization last night.

Dayn Perry at Fox Sports writes about the worst owner in baseball, and it's not G. Ogden Nutting (via Honest Wagner).

Nate McLouth goes on the DL, Rajai Davis is called up. Can you feel the excitement? Ryan Doumit is final on the rehab trail in Bradenton and John Van Benschoten may be headed to AAA.

Two new blogs for the blogroll, first off is We Should Be GM's, a mostly Phillies but sometimes Pirates blog (featuring a Pirates/Phillies praise post currently at the top). Second up is Che Steadman's The Bad News Bucs which I often see in his "Homepage" link in the comments but always forget to link to. Both will be added to the sidebar shortly, if they aren't there already.