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Also, Chipper Jones is on the final ballot. I'm a fan, but come on.

Looks like it wasn't close between Braun and Cabrera. They just showed the rosters on MLB Network. Here are the starting outfield numbers: Cabrera: 7,521,784 Beltran: 6,469,408 Kemp: 5,462,757 It's smells a bit 1988 Oakland A's-y to me. As of Tuesday, Braun had 3,168,617 votes while Cabrera had 3,045,884. So in just a few days, Cabrera got 4.5 million votes, at least 2.3 million more than Braun? Please.

If you told Braun last year that he would lose out to Melky Cabrera and a guy who has played in half his team's games in an All-Star vote, he would've laughed and laughed and laughed. And then hit a homer.

This is too easy. 1) Yeah, as a batting practice pitcher. 2) Yeah, when pouring water. 3) How, as a lefty? 4) Yeah, for the other team. 5) Yeah, in the Land O'Lakes league. 6) If by properly, you mean when giving up runs is the acceptable, then yes, he's decent. 7) Yeah, if his role is as the Tim Kurkjian impressionist.

I'd love to see Casey McGehee finally get his elusive ring.

Sometimes players make outs two at-bats in a row.

Wolf is totally blowing this for the bullpen.

Yeah, the weather report for the next few days here in Atlanta is insane. High of 105 tomorrow, 103 Sunday. It's finally supposed to get into the 80's in a week. My lawn and every other bit of plant life at my house is dead.

Seriously, someone forgetting the count or the outs is not the manager's fault. I'd be willing to bet any amount of money that RR has said something to the team about those kinds of stupid things. There's nothing he can really do. Players have to take responsibility for themselves and keep their heads in the game.

I figure it will be like a game of "500." Jennings and Ellis will throw it up in the air, call out a point value, and Udoh, LRMAM, Henson, Sanders, and Dalembert will all try to catch it.

They've been all over Facebook for days.

Yeah, I Googled the name last month and found out he was a real guy. He's married to one of the co-producers of the film. I hope I'm better looking than him so he's not insulted when he sees my mug next to his name!

I don't blame the manager for that stuff. These guys are adult professional baseball players. They don't need to be taught/reminded how to look at the scoreboard or ask the ump a question.

That's a lot of surgeries.

I don't even want to know.

I'm so excited.

Finally, finally got to film my follow-up scene this week. I was scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, but I didn't do anything until around 8:00pm Tuesday night. It was pretty crazy for a guy like me who has never acted or anything. I was the very last extra there - even the actors had all left for the night. They had set up a fancy executive office set for me and pretty soon after walking in, there were about a dozen people in this tiny room getting things all set. I was decked out in my suit, sitting at the desk with a box in front of me. On "action," I opened the box to find the suit Jason Bateman's character stole from my locker and an apology letter. I opened the letter, pretended to read it, and then held up the suit slightly. That was it. For some takes, they had me walk to the desk with the box first. There was a camera directly in front of me and one that came in on tracks to my left. That second camera zoomed in on the box's contents - I had to angle the letter and suit to give it a good view. I almost panicked for a moment at the beginning because they were about to start rolling for rehearsal, but I had never gotten an instruction. Fortunately, I stopped them and they told me what to do. They still never told me if I should do anything with my face or whatever, so I tried have some sort of reaction look (it's really hard when you start thinking about what you're doing). At one point, I asked the director if I could mouth something (I didn't have any lines) because I figure that would be natural. He asked, "What did you have in mind?" "How about, 'What the [fudge]?'" I said. "Sure, go for it." So I mouthed that for a few takes and then the director asked me if I had been doing it because he didn't hear anything. I told him I was just mouthing the words and he told me to actually say them. omgomgomg...was I going to have a line in the movie? And an f-bomb at that? Well, no. I did it once and he decided it wasn't a good idea. In hindsight, I don't think I did it that great and have since thought of a line that would've been better ("Ho-ly [something]"), but I have a feeling he just preferred it silent, as written. Maybe he nixed it because I sucked, who knows. He also told me a little bit later that I was making some sort of perplexed facial expression when looking at the suit and to just play it totally straight. It was tough to try to figure out how to act when I wasn't really, truly "acting." According to the call sheet, this scene was "Epilogue #2," so it looks like it might be shown during the credits. I got to keep my character's ID badge, but unfortunately, I did not get to keep my glasses (even though they're mine). They needed to hang on to those in case they need to do retakes and then there's some policy that because they bought me replacements (and new lenses in the ones I wore in the movie) and spent over $100, they are now "assets." Kind of sucks - I was hoping to get my glasses back, even though I like the new ones I bought. All in all, a hell of a lot of fun. Hopefully my performance was a good one. I can't wait to see the film next year.

Helton's was way worse.

Obviously Jerry Narron's fault.

From the Boston Globe: http://i.imgur.com/BG2b4.gif

I guarantee I would not have done worse than Ransom at the plate today.

I predict Gomez will swing as hard as he possibly can.

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At least I'm accurate so far, aside for the forgetting of baseball rules.