Man, what a week.  Cain pitches a perfect game on Wednesday against the Astros.  Either signs an extension to stay with the Dodgers.  They overpaid as he isn't worth that much.  And he's 30 years old and has only hit 30 homers once.

Cubs sign Soler to a 9yr deal worth 30 million dollars.  That's about the going rate for a top Latin American prospect.  I think he's listed as an OF now, I could have sworn he used to be a SS.

The Pirates begin their usual descent into the toilet by getting swept in BAL.  I guess they won't finish in last this year with the Cubs and Astros stinking it up.  Just hurry and trade Hanrahan for any decent young hitter.

Detroit has been playing better this week and the White Sox (and Indians) have fallen back.  The back end of the White Sox rotation  (Humber and Floyd) have been horrible lately.

Willingham will attract a lot of suitors.  Two years at a 7 million per year is a very affordable and offense is down league wide so that can't hurt his value.

Dodgers are said to be very interested in Ryan Dempster.  There's nothing an opposing fan base likes to hear more than Ned Coletti is interested in one of your players.  The dude gives away prospects/valuable young players like candy.  I'd suspect that they would probably get a Top 10 prospect (most likely a pitcher, they don't have minor league hitters of note) and maybe another interesting young player.   And SF is closing in on them. 

It will be real interesting to see what Philly does.  If they're out of it, they could quickly reverse course and deal Hamels and Victorino and restock their minor league system.

Yeah, Dark Shadows looked really shitty.  Not even the prospect of seeing a blonde Eva Green could compel me to see that turdfest.  To be honest, outside of the Burton films and the Verbanski Pirates films, Depp films don't really make a lot of money.  I don't say that as a sharp criticism Depp takes on interesting characters and roles that others don't bother with.

I find the bit about the handcrafted train intriguing though. 

Disney also has the yearly Pixar film they can rely on for profits.  I'm not sure how much Brave will do though.

Yeah, the site is fine as is.  Even if I'm not as into the band as I once was, I usually enjoying going into the non music forums.

I think they'll get something for Youkillis that should help them either in the future or right now.

I watched some of the game since it was on MLB network.  Matsuzaka pitched better than I thought.  The breaking ball was working really well for most of his start.  He hung a fastball to Laroche that got blasted for a HR.

Red Sox are only 5 gb of TB and 4 gb of the Orioles for the 2nd wild card spot anyway.

I was real impressed with Gio Gonzalez.  He had a 93-95 fastball and his curveball working.  His curve isn't the big breaking 9-5 type but it does move well. 

The Nats still need a CF though and maybe another C.  On Morse, he looks a lot bigger than when I saw him a few years ago with Seattle.  But yeah the 1-2 punch of Strasburg and Gonzalez could be lethal in the playoffs.  It reminds me of the Giants pitching in 2010.  I haven't really kept track of their closer situation though.  So that could be another achillies heel.

The Twins have been playing pretty well lately winning eight of their last ten.  The division is weak though and they should not start selling yet.

With the Mariners no hitter on Friday, that makes 4 no hitters pitched in the first two months of the season.  Pitching is definitely the name of the game this year.  It was really close to being 5 if Verlander could have gotten the last two out vs the Pirates.