"Turd Throw" and other stories from the rancid NLC.

[Lance Dicksons Arm]

The Sun-Times people appeared as if they were action figures staring up at you.  I'm not sure whether or not they still do that...haven't read the print edition in months,

[Mike Douche]

What a twink.

Wrong Billy Bean.

And the print version Sun-Times still has the "standing and looking up at the camera in the sky" look for their columnists.

[Taylor]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

[Waco Kid]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

[Kwyjibo]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

[Kermit]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

[CT II]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

[Corn-fed]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

[Kwyjibo]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

Of course, the flaw in this theory is that Yost is dumber than a sack of hammers. He can't possibly know how to hold secrets or favors.

[Corn-fed]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

Of course, the flaw in this theory is that Yost is dumber than a sack of hammers. He can't possibly know how to hold secrets or favors.

Wait... That's the flaw IN THIS theory?

[Slaky+]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

Of course, the flaw in this theory is that Yost is dumber than a sack of hammers. He can't possibly know how to hold secrets or favors. leads.

Turnbow'd.

[Kwyjibo]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Manager Ned Yost's 2009 option was exercised Friday by the Milwaukee Brewers following their first winning season in 15 years.

The Brewers were 83-79 last year, finishing second in the NL Central. It was the first winning mark since going 92-70 in 1992.

The 53-year-old Yost, a former player for the Brewers, was hired as manager Oct. 29, 2002.

I positive this move. Bring on another year of incompetent managing of the Brewers.

How the fuck can Jim Essian not land a managing gig?

It's all politics.

Lousy Democrats.

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

Of course, the flaw in this theory is that Yost is dumber than a sack of hammers. He can't possibly know how to hold secrets or favors.

Wait... That's the flaw IN THIS theory?

Only one I see.

[Chuckosan]

Ned Yost joined the Brewers in 1980, meaning he has essentially been involved in the MLB power structure in some way during the past 28 years. In fact, with his well-known link to Dale Earnhardt, it could be said that link to sports-entertainment powers that be goes even deeper. Well, I have to think that even in this day and age of the Internet that we in the public maybe only hear 10 to 20 percent of the behind the scenes dealings and issues and problems that baseball executives have to deal with. In our everyday lives, it is unusual for a day or two to go by without hearing some negative rumor and/or fact about somebody or something... Well, in a profession where anything like that becoming public can potentially ruin a career, Ned Yost has had a long time to figure out where these Brewers have buried their skeletons, so to say...

Whether it is a backroom deal with a mafia figurehead or an illness never publicly made known (Think the nerve tonic situation in the softball episode of the Simpsons) or something else that is negative, Yost has been in baseball/connected to baseball so long that he probably knows most of the secrets of many of these executives that these people do not EVER want out in the public. Plus, even if he doesn't know anything like this, many of these same people probably still owe him favors from his time in baseball. Essian has only been a manager for half a seasonâ€"over 15 years ago, he hasn't picked up the information or the favors to force these people to go with him.

Yahbutt can this make Shrillery president?

[Taylor]

The Dusty/Scott Williamson reunion tour has been canceled.

The San Francisco Giants agreed to terms on a minor league deal with reliever Scott Williamson on Sunday and invited him to spring training.

Williamson, the 1999 NL Rookie of the Year who turns 32 next Sunday, is scheduled to report to the team's spring training complex in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Wednesday with pitchers and catchers.

The right-hander could bolster an already deep bullpen. Williamson spent his first four-plus seasons with the Cincinnati Reds and has also pitched for Boston, the Chicago Cubs, San Diego and then Baltimore last season.

He went 1-0 with a 4.40 ERA in 16 outings in 2007, missing time early in the season while on the disabled list with tightness in his throwing arm.

[Dave B]

The Dusty/Scott Williamson reunion tour has been canceled.

The San Francisco Giants agreed to terms on a minor league deal with reliever Scott Williamson on Sunday and invited him to spring training.

Williamson, the 1999 NL Rookie of the Year who turns 32 next Sunday, is scheduled to report to the team's spring training complex in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Wednesday with pitchers and catchers.

The right-hander could bolster an already deep bullpen. Williamson spent his first four-plus seasons with the Cincinnati Reds and has also pitched for Boston, the Chicago Cubs, San Diego and then Baltimore last season.

He went 1-0 with a 4.40 ERA in 16 outings in 2007, missing time early in the season while on the disabled list with tightness in his throwing arm.

Yeah, but Crazy Rumor Guy says he might reunite with Kenny Lofton, so it continues. And Corey is still out there.