"The Mariners think that Jon Nelson can hit 40 hrs in the majors"

Inside the parker!!!!!!!

Gritty.

for Choo. Damn lefties.

that Snelling is playing. The speculation (dreaming?) that has been floating around that maybe Everett would be DFA'd or traded and Snelling activated to clear that last 40-man roster spot is probably not going to happen.

Notice also that Justin Leone is NOT playing for Portland. The Padres mid-term report card highlighted Vinnie Castilla as a major disappointment for the first half. Maybe they will finally replace Castilla with Leone.

Conjecture, all pure conjecture, but something to consider.

YARD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!

look at the size of the Portland players...

McAnulty
Knott
Cust

They also have a catcher that is a big guy who isn't playing right now.

Coicedence that their swollen roster contains Manny Alexander and Jack Cust?

Choo is having a brutal game...

3Ks...
Botched pop-up
unexplainably bad route on a gapper.

...but I guess that's how it goes for a 'pitch to contact' guy:  IF pop-up utterly botched by Castro, then another pop-up messed up by choo, and pretty soon, you're looking at a big inning.  
He pitched almost as well as he had during his string of great games, but the marginal difference in command and his team's defensive effort cost him big time.  

Clement looks kind of good, in that his swing is compact, fast and powerful, but it was odd that he swung in the same place on 3 very different pitches in the 8th or whatever.   Ugly K, but you can tell he's got the tools.