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An inconveniently ugly truth
Published 5/2/2008 by D&A at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... right now. Excellent group of notes from David Waldstein in the Star-Ledger : Bobby Murcer was at the Stadium last night, Shelley Duncan batting clean-up shows how far he's come, and there's a mini scouting report on Rasner. Great news: Murcer will be back in the YES booth for tonight's game . Wow. What a triumph for him; what a delight for us. Here's a more "official" report on Hughes than anyone got yesterday, who is out "at least" four weeks, but apparently it will be more than that . Mike Vaccaro says this injury will test his ability to ...

The Week In Quotes: April 28-May 4 by Alex Carnevale
Published 5/5/2008 at Baseball Prospectus
... ) ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN AND THE CASE OF THE INJURED RIB "He does not know how it happened." --Yankees general manager Brian Cashman , on Phil Hughes' injured rib. "It wasn't like one specific pitch where I felt it. It was just one of those things. I woke up one morning and it was a little discomfort but nothing major, and then after [Wednesday] night there was significantly more discomfort." --Hughes "I really don't think that it was an issue in my performance." --Hughes (Mark Hale, New York Post ) THE REST "Well, there's big money in that, in the expansion of cable TV, the ...