Chicken Dance confirms a "left intercostal muscle strain." Crowe continues to be a crazy yo-yo story. Even casual Indians fans know who he is, but he's become a kind of running joke as well. There have been plenty of times where he has been absolutely awful ("Ah! Second base!!"), plenty of times when he has been hurt, and yet he still gets spring training ABs with the big club.

At the time of his injury, he had worked his OPS up to (a batting average inflated) .921. If he had enough bats to qualify, that would make him a top 10 hitter in the Eastern League. However, Chris Gimenez is not impressed.

He's 24, a year younger than Gimenez (although I'll ask APV to check this). And has 26 BBs to 26 Ks. Everything about this screams oft-injured spare outfielder, so hooray.

Weglarz is different - he's a potential impact player. Crowe is the name that just won't go away.

Also, Lofgren is back, and something about LaPorta.

I had a whiny intro paragraph about how everything continues to go wrong, but I deleted it.

I count four draftees on display in Omaha:

Cord Phelps, 2b, Stanford
Tim Fedroff, of, UNC
Adam Warren, rhp, UNC
Matt Longwell, rhp, Rice

I thought about doing a bracket challenge, except that it would be ridiculous.

And as we all guessed, Candlebox will be performing. Did you know that they have a "Best of.." cd? Anyone?

The Cleveland Indians are the worst team in baseball, over the last 5 games anyway.

At times like this, I occasionally pretend baseball doesn't exist. Other times I look for anything positive from the minors. And other times I write bizarre, spectacular, violent, delicious clip art poetry. (Actually, I don't do that.)

Anyway, I will be trying to follow the Akron game, and putting meaningless observations here. It is Lofgren after all, and we really need our system to produce some freakin' starting pitching. And hey, Hodges is there. But probably no Borowski.

Also! If Lofgren is too old and damaged for you, Chris Archer is also pitching early today.

Audio available for both games.

And by early, I mean very very early. Why don't these games start at 1:05?

For the record, we're taking these guys down.

Lofgren and Huff Double Header Today, starting at 5 et.

Kinston playing at noon e.t. I love these day games. There is free audio, but I can't listen today. Anybody around?

Mills-Goedert-WEGLARZ-Rivero.

Goedert read Jay's recent comments, and offered up a double, HR, and BB yesterday. It's a start.

Weglarz steps to the plate in Kinston. Power surge causes electrical failure in entire city. Game suspended.

We don't need to make up stories for this guy.

But no listing for the HD games yet.

Although it could be worse, .Comcast may not be showing any HD games with their Extra Innings package.

One extra note for Blackberry users - you've got to download the free little Indians application button. MLBAM is still a year ahead of the other leagues in delivering content.

Oh yeah, and here's the strikethrough.