MIAMI (AP) — A tip Cuban referee has defected to the United States.

ATLANTA (AP) — Chip Caray has called his last ball diversion for TBS.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels voted to give a full postseason share to the estate of Nick Adenhart, the rookie pitcher killed in Apr in a car collision allegedly caused by a inebriated driver.

Or Reed Johnson, Kevin Gregg, or Chad Fox, per Carrie Muskat:

A short reason (and I’ll try to keep it simple): Teams which suggest their giveaway agents income settlement get Draft picks in lapse if the player signs elsewhere, and the series of picks is formed on the player’s rating. To get compensation, a group contingency suggest settlement to the Type A or B giveaway representative and have which player possibly reject settlement or pointer prior to the deadline to reject the pronounced arbitration.

The Elias Sports Bureau determines the designations formed on statistical study. Gregg is a Type A giveaway agent, Harden is Type B. Johnson and Fox have been non-compensatory. So, if the Cubs did suggest settlement to Gregg and an additional group sealed him, the Cubs could get dual Draft picks. One would be a first-round collect from the signing group (if the team’s collect is next the initial fifteen picks in the Draft) and a supplemental pick. The supplemental collect is a player taken in between the initial and second rounds.

If the signing group has a collect in the initial fifteen slots, the group which loses the giveaway representative will get the signing team’s second-round preference and the sandwich pick.A Type B giveaway representative similar to Harden would be value one Draft collect to the Cubs if he signs with an additional team. That collect is a supplemental pick.

I’m not utterly certain how Gregg rates Type A and Harden Type B, but there it is. The Cubs patently do not wish Gregg back, so they won’t suggest arb even yet dual picks would come in return, since he’d expected accept and the Cubs would be stranded with him. Chad Fox, obviously, will expected retire. Since Reed Johnson is non-compensatory, it creates no clarity to suggest him arb — if the Cubs wish him back, they can come to terms with him as a finish giveaway agent.

The central deadline is tomorrow; we’ll know some-more by then.

Last week in the contention of the signs on the Waveland office building rooftop, I posted this print from Jun 22, 1953 which I believed to be the beginning accessible color print of the scoreboard.

That stirred Bill Wasik, who supposing the answer to the Waveland mystery, to send me this photo, taken even earlier. After the burst find out when it was taken, and which players have been in the photo.

Here’s what Bill sent me per this photo:

This is a severe combination of dual 35mm slides taken with a stereo camera on Sunday, May 14, 1950. Pittsburgh was in locale for a doubleheader, with Johnny Schmitz confronting the Pirates‘ Junior Walsh. As we can infer from the scoreboard interpretation and the on all sides of the fielders, Wayne Terwilliger contingency be stepping in to the batter’s box to lead off for the Cubs in the bottom of the first.

Players manifest embody Tom Saffell in center, Pete Castiglione at short, and the mythological Nanny Fernandez at third. The male in black on the third bottom line is Hall of Fame ump Al Barlick. Not seen but benefaction are, surprisingly, Honus Wagner, who was still a dais physical education instructor for the Pirates in 1950 and, over in left field, Ralph Kiner. Ironically, Kiner was the player many active in lobbying the joining to have Wrigley’s centerfield bleachers sealed in 1952.

Kiner came to the Cubs in 1953 — after multiform CF bleacher sections had eventually been sealed from lobbying by him, as good as multiform members of the Cardinals together with their manager, Eddie Stanky. The initial diversion for which those sections were sealed was a diversion vs. the Cardinals on Apr 20, 1952; on Apr twenty-seven the Cubs voiced they would be sealed for “the rest of the year”, but no one sat in those sections (which right away is the batters’ eye lounge/skybox) after that, solely during the 1962 All-Star Game.

This is one of the usually photos I have seen — and the usually one in color — which shows the bleachers full, and people sitting in those CF seats. Attendance which Sunday, which, as Bill noted, was a doubleheader, was 34,659 — and the Cubs, who were horrible in 1950 (64-89), got swept by the even worse Pirates (who accomplished final at 57-96), 6-5 and 16-9.

A integrate of alternative things of note in the photo:

• The print is from the initial diversion — display us which doubleheaders in which year began at 1:30 pm.
• The ivy had been planted in 1938, twelve years progressing — but it isn’t even tighten to being entirely grown. In mid-May, even today, the ivy isn’t entirely grown in for the summer, but in this print you see roughly no growth. Even the leaves on the trees at the back of the bleachers haven’t grown in on which day.
• Check out the vendor, station up in the blue coupler with yellow essay — wearing a fedora! Many alternative group have been additionally wearing fedoras; you see a integrate of people wearing Cubs caps, but no one else wearing any group garb.
• The LF weed looks flattering chewed up. Remember which the Bears played in Wrigley Field in which era, and the area which looks brownish-red was only about the center of the field.

Hey there! I goal you all had a poetic Thanksgiving weekend, I know I did. Anyway, if you’re a lady (…or a happy man) and a ball fan, there’s no disbelief you’ve listened about the voluptuous myspace-style lavatory cinema of Grady Sizemore which were stolen from his inbox.

If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s the wish to move the beauties to your attention. Here’s one to soppy your whistle, and here’s the rest. Let this be a doctrine to all you guys and gals out there who have been deliberation emailing obscene photos of yourself to your poignant other. DUMB IDEA. Unless you’d similar to alternative folks to presumably see them someday.

P.S. To those of you who’ve already come to the shining end which we have been hideous people for bending so low as to make objective the Cleveland Indians centerfielder, I say… it’s not the initial time, and it many positively won’t be the last.

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There was a little contention of of Bud Selig’s preference to leave as government official when his tenure ends in 2012, but I see the post was deleted by the strange poster, expected since it was devolving in to domestic discussion, that I had privately asked multiform times in the post for people NOT to do.

I’m reposting the subject for contention here. Keep the governing body OUT of this post, or I’ll undo this one, too.