Baseball "pontifications"

1. They say that if you watch any baseball game closely, you will almost always see something that you have never seen before. Last night in the Indians-Brewers game, the Indians are at bat and there is a play about to develop at the plate with Tony Graffanino coming home. John Buck is the Royals catcher and is readying himself to receive a throw for a play at the plate. There happens to be a bat straddling the third base line just to the left of Buck's left foot. Buck, perhaps purposely, does not move the bat. Graffanino is beginning his slide into the plate but does not want to slide over the bat (sissy-man) so takes a slightly roundabout way there and is tagged out. Never saw that one before.

2. I know the Rays sent David Price down to the minors so to keep his arbitration clock from running and this is something that many low payroll teams do for future budget considerations and in principle, I have no problem with this. The thing here is that the Rays are a contender and games in April count as much as games in September. They are 6-10 and no I do not think this is because David Price is in AAA but none the less, if I were the Rays in this particular year, I would be fielding my best possible team all year long.

3. Milton Bradley needs to get on the field. This is not fantasy related or anything.