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Yardwork: Neil Everett is a Believer in Miracles
Published 7/3/2008 by Patrick Imig at The Big Lead
... to 71, tops in the National League. For a guy hitting .219, that’s quite impressive. For Phillies fans, he’s a lot like Marie Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond: while you want to choke him out and leave him for dead in a muddy ravine a lot of the time, he’s indispensable. [TBL add: Here's a fantastic story on how the Phillies coaxed wife-beater Brett Myers into the minor league stint. The insane pitcher made his first start last night and imploded in the fifth inning.] Yankees 18, Rangers 7: ...

Create-a-Caption: 'That #$%! followed me all the way here?'
Published 7/3/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... found himself sitting on the bench across the same diamond, but for very different reasons — he's serving a penance for being such a crummy pitcher, not rehabbing a nagging injury — than Dice-K.  ...