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Before tonight's game the Washington Nationals announced that Danny Espinosa had been playing with a fracture in his right wrist since Atlanta Braves' lefty Paul Maholm hit the Nats' infielder in a mid-April matchup in the nation's capital. Espinosa had X-rays done then, but no break was revealed. When the issue continued to bother the infielder during the Nationals' recently-completed road trip, the 26-year-old Espinosa took another trip to the doctor, this time seeing a Baltimore, Maryland-based hand specialist who diagnosed the injury announced today. "I looked at the films and [Espinosa] has a little chip floating around in his wrist," Davey Johnson told reporters this afternoon. - Davey Johnson on Danny Espinosa's injured wrist "I looked at the films and [Espinosa] has a little chip floating around in his wrist," Johnson told reporters this afternoon. "The report I got from the trainers is if he can stand the pain it shouldn't get any worse. Knowing how that is, I called the doctor and said, 'Well, what we want to do is -- what's always best for the team is what's always best for the player.' And I wanted to know if that chip would move around and get exacerbated and cause more [of a] problem, or what was the real problem in there and the problem, is it's a broken bone." The Nats' skipper said he would have Espinosa rest and see if he can get by the pain and stay in the lineup. After tonight's game, with the Nats' bench short, the team announced that they had designated 31-year-old right-hander Yunesky Maya for assignment after calling him up this past weekend. RHP Yunesky Maya has been designated for assignment. The #Nats will call up infielder Jeff Kobernus. #MLB #Nationals — William Ladson (@washingnats) May 25, 2013 Taking Maya's place will be 24-year-old, Nats' '09 2nd Round pick Jeff Kobernus, a utility infielder who has played second, third, left and center at Triple-A Syracuse early this season. Kobernus was left unprotected and selected by the Detroit Tigers in this past winter's Rule 5 Draft, but when he didn't make the Tigers' opening day roster, he was returned to the Nationals' organization. In 43 games and 193 plate appearances this season for the Syracuse Chiefs, Kobernus has a .333/.378/.420 line with eight doubles, two triples, a home run and 21 stolen bases in 27 attempts. • MLB.com video on Jeff Kobernus: Your browser does not support iframes. "[Kobernus is] a terrific contact bat. He can steal you a base when you have to. He’s a plus, plus runner and kind of an energy-type of exciting type of player." - Mike Rizzo on Jeff Kobernus on 106.7 the FAN in D.C. Nats' GM Mike Rizzo offered the following scouting report on Kobernus during his weekly appearance on 106.7 the FAN in D.C.'s eponymously-titled "Mike Rizzo Show" this past Wednesday: "Kobernus is a speedy utility-type of player that plays second, third, short and the outfield for us. He’s a terrific contact bat. He can steal you a base when you have to. He’s a plus, plus runner and kind of an energy-type of exciting type of player." Maya, who signed a 4-year/$8M dollar deal as an international free agent in 2010, surrendered a walk-off home run in this past Saturday's loss to the San Francisco Giants. In 16 games, 10 starts and 59.0 IP in the majors, the right-hander is (1-5) with a 5.80 ERA. Maya's (1-4) with a 5.07 ERA in eight starts and 49.2 IP so far this season. Kobernus, drafted out of the University of California at Berkeley, will be making his MLB debut when he first gets in a game with the Nationals who drafted him with the first pick of the second round of the 2009 Draft.

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Just last season, Richard Seymour was one of the highest paid defensive linemen in the NFL. He had been one of the highest paid for a number of years and at one time perhaps he deserved it. Those days are gone for Seymour. They actually lasted longer than they should have because of the hefty contract he received from the Raiders when he was acquired in trade with the New England Patriots where he hadn't made a Pro Bowl in three seasons. When he arrived in Oakland, he was already on a downturn but was still considered among the best defensive linemen in the game. The problem was, there was no way he would still be worth his contract by the time it was up and so his eventual release was inevitable. In last year's training camp Seymour was seen standing on the sideline more than he was actually practicing. In previous seasons, he was among the veterans who got regular days off practice but last year on top of those days, he was also battling chronic knee pain. Midway through camp, Myself and Vic Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle spoke with Seymour. At the time, the hot story was about how he said he thought the Raiders could be a top 5 defense and he even used the Patriots as an example of how a defense could be underestimated. Not only was the Raiders defense just as bad, if not worse than expected, but Seymour was ineffective with those bad knees the first half of the season before being sidelined for the latter half. But it wasn't Seymour's controversial prediction that stuck with me from that conversation. The part of that conversation that I couldn't really stop thinking about was when Vic asked him about being the highest paid defensive lineman in the league. He insisted that he was no longer the highest paid player, citing Julius Peppers and Mario Williams as having surpassed him. Then he joked that "I need to load back up (laughs)... The guys came and took my throne away.... I'm looking to get back, yeah." I understood it as a joke and didn't make anything of it, but something still seemed unsettling about a player, especially one nearing the final years of his career, focusing so heavily on who is making more money than he is. Now 33, if he were to still be under contract with the Raiders, he would again be the highest paid defensive lineman. His salary against the cap was set at $19 million. The Raiders had put a playing time clause in his contract that would give them the option to void it while taking a $13 million bath and they exercised it. Not that they had much choice, that is still a much needed $6 million savings. It is about nine months since he joked about being the highest paid defensive lineman and over four months since his contract was voided and remains unemployed. Then this week, for the first time, news came out of him visiting the Falcons. Seymour lives near Atlanta in the offseason so Initially it seemed his becoming a Falcon was going to happen. However, shortly thereafter things broke down and word is they couldn't agree on financial details. There are likely two things at work here and they are both classic Richard Seymour. 1) He simply wants too much money. 2) He doesn't want to sign with a team until OTA's and minicamps are over so he won't be required to show up and practice. Most likely it's a combination of the two The humble pie is bubbling and he will be served it soon enough. He has to realize he is not the player he once was both due to age and injury and he will have to be content with the gobs of cash he has already made in his career (even when he was undeserving) because it's that or forced retirement from football.

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The news that actor Steve Forrest died on May 18 at age 87 put me immediately in mind of what are probably his two most prominent leading roles--in the 1966-1967 British crime drama The Baron (on which he played an antiques dealer who is also a sometime undercover agent “working in an informal capacity for the head of the fictional British Diplomatic Intelligence ...”); and in the 1975-1976 ABC police drama S.W.A.T. (which cast him as Lieutenant “Hondo” Harrelson, the head of a Southern California Special Weapons and Tactics team). However, I also remember Forrest--the younger brother of actor Dana Andrews--for a variety of his guest-star roles over the years. His résumé was extensive, including appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Arrest and Trial, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, McMillan & Wife, Cannon, Columbo, and … well, this list could go on and on. Interestingly, one of my strongest memories of Forrest is of his playing a condemned killer who was scheduled to die in an early electric chair, in “Hangman’s Wages,” an episode of Hec Ramsey. He did a splendid job defining his character’s long and mutually respectful relationship with small-town Oklahoma lawman Ramsey, played by Richard Boone. Forrest will definitely be missed. READ MORE: “R.I.P., Steve Forrest,” by Matthew Bradford/Tanner (Double O Section).

Jim Harbaugh says new Chicago Bears coach Marc Trestman "taught me everything." The San Francisco 49ers coach believes his mentor will prove to be a "grand slam hire" for the Bears.

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Grandmother Ericka Gallego of El Monte, California was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her own four-month-old granddaughter in 2011 and attempting to pass the girl off as her own two-week-old daughter. Gallego had apparently been faking a pregnancy for months before she scooped the girl up from her own son's bedroom and tried to throw herself a baby shower the next day. [ more › ]

I don’t understand eating, I really don’t — it’s like I eat, and I feel horrible, but then a few minutes later I’m eating again. Not even thinking about it, just eating, and feeling horrible, trying to stop but unable because I’m hungry, or is this hunger, and what is hunger, and what is eating, and what would it feel like not to feel horrible whenever I eat, or right after. And how the moments when I feel best are generally when I’ve gone the longest without eating, but then that comes to an end so soon because I get frantic and hypoglycemic and I think that eating well-balanced my blood sugar, right? But it so rarely balances anything, and then the horrible bloating which has been worse since I’ve been back in Seattle, why? Maybe my bed is too soft, I mean I searched for this bed for literally years, something really soft but also supportive that didn’t outgas horrible chemicals right away or cave in within a few weeks and finally I found it, made in a unionized store/factory right in San Francisco and it’s the most expensive thing I’ve ever owned. I’ve had it for eight years now, and nothing has gone wrong except now I think it’s too soft, and that makes the bloating worse, the bloating and the clenching of my jaw so now I need something a bit firmer, but I can’t get rid of this bed that took me so long to find, but then if I put it in storage that will probably cost me at least $100 a month so, who knows, what the hell am I going to do?But I was trying to write about eating, you see how I get easily distracted. Just thinking about it makes me exhausted, maybe it’s time for bed again, I slept forever last night and I feel horrible, kind of like I’m slipping into seasonal depression but it’s the end of May. Seasonal depression because I can’t get enough light into my eyes since I’m always wearing sunglasses and a sun hat to prevent the tragic migraine atrocity which is always lurking, especially here in Seattle, especially when I’m looking at the computer and writing, now, but I know there was more I wanted to write about eating.