Congratulations to last year’s Lynx manager, Dave Trembley on being named Baltimore manager for 2008!  Unfortunately the news of the contract extension (blogger: I suppose it’s an extension) was overshadowed by last night’s 30-3 loss.

In other news, and this comes as a surprise, Chris Roberson is back with the Lynx (blogger: sent down on his birthday no less).  Chris picked up a pinch hit in last night’s 15-3 loss to the Dodgers, raising his average with the Phillies to .280 (minimal AB though).  Geoff Geary is heading the other way and will re-join the parent club.  FLPs Clay Condrey and to a lesser extent, J.D. Durbin got hit hard last night - giving up 9 earned runs between the two of them.   Just one of those nights, I’m afraid.

Fabio Castro was called up a few days ago, and according to the Phillies website (blogger: which needs to do something about all the phreakin’ pop-up ads!), will be pitching in this afternoon’s game against the Dodgers.  Philadelphia’s been bit yet again by the injury bug with staff ace, Cole Hamels the latest to go down.  Apparently it’s not as bad as initially believed - an MRI revealed there’s no ligament damage to the left elbow.

The Lynx have also added pitcher Gary Knotts from AA Reading.  Who is Gary Knotts?

“He spent the 2004 season in the starting rotation of the Detroit Tigers, along with Jeremy Bonderman, Mike Maroth and Nate Robertson, the trio that helped pitch the Tigers to the World Series last season.The following year he hurt his shoulder in spring training and didn’t pitch again over the next two seasons. He needed surgery in July 2005 to repair his rotator cuff and a torn labrum.When he recovered no one in baseball would take his calls.

Finally, for now, our second favorite team in MiLB, the Vermont Lake Monsters have fallen off the pace a bit recently.  After going 3-7 over their last 10, they sit 2.5 games back of Oneonta with 16 games to play.