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Remember Joe Morgan's fib from last week? Yeah well, he did it again. This is getting pretty sad and it's giving the people who want Morgan ousted more ammunition.

I still can't find this ball. I've watched this video like nine times now.

Deadspin is bringing up this thing where they rip baseball stadiums or something like that. I don't know if this is the first one they've done, but it's probably the only one I'm going to talk about.

I hate the Ballpark in Arlington with a passion. Why? Why not? It was the New Yankee Stadium before the New Yankee Stadium.

Ozzie Guillen went off yet again. This has been the fifteenth different weakest call Ozzie has ever seen.

Fans, please leave players alone. If you are drunk, please pass out or something. It just doesn't end well for anyone when you mess with players, especially when you are messing with them about steroids.

You might be wondering where the title of this article is from. If so, you might need to watch the show Frisky Dingo, which I frequently quote, in life lessons as well as baseball columns. That particular line is in this video here. Caution for language and very crude comments, please and thank you.

A shortage on links this week, but I have one more. Remember Clay Council from last year's Home Run Derby? He was the older gentleman who threw the batting practice pitches to Josh Hamilton last year. I guess he's doing the same for 16-year-old phenom Bryce Harper.

Roundabout of Randomness

It’s great to see Joey Votto back for the Cincinnati Reds. We've finally got some light shed on to why he was out as long as he was. He's battled bouts of dizziness and ear infections and all that, but the main things have been anxiety and depression

The anxiety and depression was because of the death of his father last year. Indians minor leaguer Chuck Lofgren had a disaster year in 2008 because of a distraction at home with his mother battling cancer. I give all the credit in the world to Votto not only playing, but playing as well as he has this past year.

There hasn't been too much in terms of injuries this past week, at least not too many notables. But you do have to point out that Xavier Nady is now out for the season. I could have told you that was happening back when it was first reported he might need Tommy John Surgery.

How can you go from, maybe needing it, to not maybe needing it? I'm no doctor, but if the injury is that close to needing major reconstructive surgery, then damnit, you better do it.

ESPN has this Manny Ramirez watch on their MLB homepage. I think it's downright silly to be honest. Ramirez hit a home run in his first at-bat with Class-A Inland Empire the other day and I'll be glad when he's back. Do we really need Manny Watch everywhere and grainy footage of him hitting for a team called the Isotopes?

I really think Ricky Nolasco is going to be a huge key for the Florida Marlins the rest of the season. After he's returned from Triple-A, Nolasco has at least been better than he was to start the year.

But if Nolasco can do serious damage, him and Josh Johnson are quite the 1-2 punch at the top of the rotation for a team that, as we saw to start the year, can get on a roll.

Eric Wedge needs to bench Kelly Shoppach unless Cliff Lee is pitching. Shoppach is horrible at this point and has lost all value he gained last year when he hit all those home runs.

Shoppach is the definition of go-for-broke in terms of a hitter. Not only that, but his defense has fallen off considerably since his first year with the Tribe.

It's dawned on me that Jeremy Sowers, the Indians starter, and Homer Bailey, Reds starter, are one in the same. Both won their first games as starting pitchers this past weekend. They both have the same type of issues though as far as pitching.

Lights out in the Triple-A level, but then they reach the Major Leagues and hit a wall. Not only that, but they can't seem to give their teams length. Bailey is just crazy though with his seven walks.

Finally, I didn't make it a huge story because I'm not all dusted up on the history of Donald Fehr. However it does deserve some face time as Fehr was a major player in the history of baseball and we can pretty much thank him for all that is bad with baseball.

Inflated player salaries, no cap, and the disappointing era of steroids running rampant, all can pretty much be pinned on Fehr. Some will say Bud Selig was the commissioner during the era of steroids, but Fehr is a big reason it and those other things have gone on.

Let's face it; those three things I mentioned are really bad for baseball in general. The fact that Alex Rodriguez can make thousands of dollars per at-bat he takes is just not good. Neither are steroids, or the fact that the Yankees can spend till they see fit.

Fehr unfortunately was very good at what he did because not only did all this happen, but it was all his goal. Maybe not the steroids, but the environment was created to do steroids and that environment was something Fehr strove for.

He was damn good at his job and the people who would like a salary cap are hoping the next guy isn't as good as Fehr was.

Nino Colla is Talking every Monday of the baseball season, or whenever time needs to be wasted, provided objects don't get thrown.

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