Thanks to Nick and Neate and everyone else who’s taken the time to send an email or link my way. Unfortunately, no sooner does Joe Thurston make the TSN Honor Roll with the Red Sox than he’s Designated For Assignment (DFA’d) - if he clears waivers, he’s back in Pawtucket (blogger: You could find yourself in worse places, I suppose…).
FLP Eude Brito is bouncing around like a ping-pong ball. He started the season with Washington’s AAA team (Columbus), but according to today’s New York Daily News he’s been picked up by the Mets and will report to their AA franchise (Binghamton Mets).
And finally, a report on Kane Davis who is now pitching in Syracuse for the Chiefs (Toronto). It’s a good story, found over at Syracuse.com (part of the Post-Standard paper) and it chronicles Kane’s long baseball career:
He’s still only 32 years old, and yet this is Davis’ 16th professional baseball season. And after Pittsburgh’s Gulf Coast League rookie club in Florida followed by Welland, Augusta, Lynchburg, Carolina, Altoona, Nashville, Akron, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Colorado, Colorado Springs, the New York Mets, Norfolk, Camden, Iowa, Somerset, Ottawa and Philadelphia, the Chiefs are his 22nd professional outfit.
It includes some of his feelings about facing his former team-mates from Ottawa (for the record, he mowed ‘em down in a 2-1 Chiefs win last week). Nice to see that he’s at peace with where he’s at, and what he’s doing -
Now, there were times when the anguish got to him, when the bitterness took over, when the angry words flowing from his mouth served him rather poorly. In fact, the Cubs dumped Davis back in ‘03 because he’d become too big of a pain in the organization’s hindquarters.
But, he insisted on Sunday’s glorious afternoon, those days are gone.
“I’m past that,” Davis said after beating the poor IronPigs, who have fallen to a hideous 2-16. “I come to the park with a smile on. I’m happy to be playing and I’m happy to be healthy. The thing is, crying isn’t going to get you to the big leagues.”
Best wishes to all three FLPs from Ottawa.
Joe, beating the tag (Photo credit: Zechariah Kiiffner)
Kane in June 2007, almost off the DL.
Eude Brito, August 2007.
