It's the all-star break and like Andy Dufresne the Bucs seemed to have climbed through five football fields of stench to get here. But instead of coming out clean on the other side, they've arrived at a spot where they get to play the other half of the season. Climb back into that sewer pipe fellas. What can you say? Saturday's collapse against the Phillies, ugh. Sunday's pounding, double ugh. So let's try to look at some good points. First, there are some Matt Capps trade rumors, although Saturday couldn't have helped that move along at all. I'm actually hoping the Sanchez trade rumors are true. He should deliver some decent prospects. Then there are some bright spots on the current club like Garrett Jones. Five homers in 11 games, not too shabby. Keep it up and he could find himself on a contender by July 31st. Zach Duke got himself on the all-star team. That means the last place team in the NL central will have two guys on the team. Apparently, Duke impressed Phillies manager Charlie Manuel with his complete game loss on Saturday, so he picked him to replace Matt Cain. And finally Jeff Karstens. He pitched some no-hit relief Sunday through little more than three innings. I have to ask, why did he get dumped into the bullpen again? He seemed to be solid in the starting rotation to begin with, a lot more solid than Snell at the time, and more solid than Vasquez has been so far. On a side note, I caught "Shawshank" on tv Friday morning. The first time since hearing that Morgan Freeman was engaged to his step-granddaughter. Turns out it's not true. Good thing, because I was thinking Morgan would need to do a little time in the movie theater projector room with Boggs and the boys for that one.
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