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'Huston Street Throws 20 pitch Simulated Game'



As kids in the backyard, with ball and glove, and a lineup of Morgan, Bench, and Perez coming up in our heads, as we threw that first pitch up against the side of the house , we had no idea it was to be called, 'a simulated game'.





Coco Crisp Will Likely Return from the Disabled List as soon as Eligible'



The blurb goes on to say that Crisp has not started baseball activities yet....Sometimes I get the feeling that Gekko writes these in order to throw off fantasy opponents.

If not, the writer has added one (Coco Crisp) and one (not starting baseball activities) and come up with 17 (He'll be ready when eligible)





'Brian Roberts is Slated to Play an Extended Spring Training Game Friday'





I guess if it's five o'clock somewhere, that it is still spring training somewhere.

I don't know what an extended game even is.





'Derek Lee, Aramis Ramirez, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Theriot, and Geovany Soto All on the Bench'



Ted Lilly's mom, an avid fantasy player, has Ted on every team. Upon seeing the lineup, she texted Piniella....."Screw you, Lou!"

Thank you for saying what I was afraid to because I didn't want to demonstrate my ignorance. Shouldn't every player be assiigned to the majors or minors by June? Who the hell is playing in extended spring training? I feel like a gimpy Brandon Webb is there throwing to a gimpy Brian Roberts and the fielders are Ray Liota and the rest of the 1919 White Sox as they don't have an Iowa cornfield to play in any more.

As my friends and family will tell you, Brian, I am never afraid to demonstrate my ignorance.

From Wikipedia (insert joke here, but this explanation is plausible)



Minor league players participate in spring training following a telescoped schedule that generally lasts from March 1-31. At its conclusion, most players are assigned to full-season Class A, AA or AAA farm team rosters to begin the regular minor league season. However, those players deemed unready for a full-season campaign — through inexperience or injury — are assigned to "extended spring training," a structured program of workouts, rehabilitation sessions, simulated games and exhibition games based in the major league parent team's minor league training complex. If a player is deemed ready to participate in full-season league action, he is promoted to an appropriate-level farm club. When the "short season" Class A and rookie leagues begin play in late June, extended spring training players are assigned to those rosters, placed on the disabled list, or released.