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Five of seven from the Brewers and Astros was an acceptable outcome. More would've been nice, but this is baseball. No one wins every day. The schedule is about to get a little bit tougher, though, so getting at least two wins from the Cubs here would be a pretty big thing. Matt Garza makes his 2013 debut tonight, so it'd be nice to see the Pirates wear him out early and get into the Cubbie bullpen and wreak some havoc. Wandy Rodriguez seems to have snapped out of his mini-funk and he starts for the Bucs. Starling Marte has the night off, but Andrew McCutchen is back in the lineup. First pitch is at 7:05.

The Cleveland Browns are playing musical chairs at the lower end of the running back position. This morning, the team officially announced the re-signing of veteran running back Brandon Jackson to a one-year deal. In the process, they released UDFA running back Robbie Rouse, leaving the team with six running backs. Then, just a few hours later, the team announced that they were awarded UDFA running back Miguel Maysonet off waivers from the Philadelphia Eagles. In order to complete the move, they had to waive UDFA running back Jamaine Cooke, a local player who was signed after the draft. Whew. Forgive me for not being completely in tap with the college market, but Maysonet played for Stony Brook University, where he ran for 1,964 yards and 21 touchdowns in his senior year. He must have been facing some stiff competition, eh? Based on his stats, it doesn't sound as though he was asked to catch the ball very often, though. Maysonet is 5-10, 205 lbs, and was ranked as the No. 26 running back coming out of the draft by CBS Sports' Dane Brugler (sadly, that is just one spot shy of having a scouting report available by Brugler!). Apparantly, though, Maysonet's release from the Eagles on Monday drew some buzz: It was curious on a few levels. Maysonet received a $10,000 signing bonus, the largest amount for any undrafted running back, according to a source. But he never got a chance to prove himself in OTA practices. By NCAA rule, Maysonet wasn't allowed to participate in last week's OTAs because his class at Stony Brook still hasn't graduated. He took part in a three-day rookie minicamp almost two weeks ago, and that was it. Maysonet's release created an immediate buzz. In fact, he was trending for several minutes on Twitter, highly unusual for a small-school player. Here is an updated look at the Browns' depth chart at running back, but after Trent Richardson, pretty much anyone on the list could win a backup or third-down role: Trent Richardson Montario Hardesty Chris Ogbonnaya Brandon Jackson Dion Lewis Miguel Maysonet Does anyone out there have some extra intel on Maysonet?

The Jays finally cut back from the stupid 8-man bullpen, sent Mickey Storey back to Buffalo and surprised us by calling up Anthony Gose. Earlier they told us they wouldn't call up Gose unless he was here to stay. Baseball teams should stop saying things like that, because they can't see the future. Yes, in a perfect world, they'd like him to stay in Buffalo until he was ready to come up to Toronto to fill a spot in the outfield for the next several years. When have things been perfect in the Blue Jay world? Before we look at why Gose, let's look at something Mike Harrington wrote in this piece for the Buffalo News blog: It won't play well in the Buffalo clubhouse otherwise, e.g. the prospect gets the call no matter what he's doing even though out-of-organization veterans are producing much more. He's right, it won't play well with the Buffalo players, but then nothing really plays well with Triple-A players. They know they are close to being where they want to be. Most of them feel like they should be there now, if those front office guys knew how to do their jobs. So pretty much every move 'won't play well' in the clubhouse. If you are Jim Negrych, you just saw a guy hitting roughly 160 points worse than you get called up, that can't be easy to take. You can console yourself with the thought that the team wanted an outfielder, but you'd have to be thinking 'I have been batting .400 and the guys above me, in my position, aren't hitting at all. If I can't get the call now, it is never going to happen. So, yeah, I'm pretty sure he can't be terribly happy. For Moises Sierra, he might not be hitting .400 but he is hitting pretty decent, .324/.373/.497 slash line, much better than Gose, the team wants an outfielder and they pick Gose? He might not be so happy Josh Thole? You think Josh doesn't know what Henry Blanco is hitting? And J.P. Arencibia, I'm sure he knows that JP has two walks. He knows how many passed balls Blanco has, how many strikeouts Arencibia has. Someone else gets called up and he has to be wondering why his .330/.411/.495 line hasn't carried him to Toronto yet. So, yep, I'm sure calling up Gose hasn't made the Bison's clubhouse the happiest of place I guess the Jays don't want to change anything about the batting order, even with a bunch of guys not hitting. If they called Negyrich, then Bonifacio would have to sit. Not that bad an idea to me, but Gibbons has said he wants Emilio to play every day and hope that he finds his stroke. I might think that it would be smarter to give Negrych few days that Rajai is on the DL, give him a chance to prove the hot bat he has in Buffalo will work in Toronto. Or, I'd get Moises up to play against lefties. But, the Jays decided that they just want someone to be a defensive replacement for Melky Cabrera. And we all saw his defense wasn't great when he was up last year. There is nothing worse than putting in someone for his defense and then watching him make an error. So Gose it is.Lots of people are worried that this will screw up his development. I don't, he'll get to work with Chad Mottola for a few days. He loses a few game at bats, but I think he can live through it. Maybe the change in scenery will do him good. I'm ok with calling Gose up, how about you?

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This is pretty old so you may have already seen this, but it's worth another watch.

A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shiites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. Nearly 300 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian…

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