I still read ESPN... So, here's a great article about Adam Jones, his attitude in the clubhouse and the clubhouse's attitude towards him.  I love how the article makes no mentions of veterans stepping forward to make sure he knows his place.  Sounds like he knows it pretty well- Starting center fielder with a cool clubhouse demeanor.  

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My thoughts before tonight's game, after last night's game.

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I took some pics at the game that turned out really well.  I thought some people here might enjoy seeing them.

My favorite is of Guillen tackling Bentancourt after  Bentancourt's walk off single ended the game:
The rest of the pics here: on my picasaweb

These were taken with my Nikon D80 with 18-200 VR lens. A did some heavy cropping and a bit of noise cleanup.

According to Basedball Tonight, Snelling was traded by Washington for Oakland's Langerhans.

They also said Snelling "goes back to Oakland" and made some strange point about East Coast to West Coast and back again, but who knows what's going on.

It'll great to see him playing again in Seattle... too bad its for the wrong team.

Given that the Sox paid 42m for a pitcher that would normally be a free agent in a year, I believe that they will extend Matsuzaka a very low contract offer-- something on the order of $10m/3 years.  If he accepts it, hey, great, but if not, at least he's not going to be in pinstripes next year.  

The problem is that this will likely burn the Sox from any chance that he would be willing to sign with them in the future, but they might be willing to live with that.

Either way, I expect Matsuzaka to be playing for the Lions next year because I think everyone agrees that nobody is worth $72m for three years, especially when he'll be worth something line $30-35m/3 years next year.