Rumors

There is this bar in DC called Rumors in which I had the misfortune of finding myself a couple of times. It's a little, I guess what you could call a dive bar for "preppy" kids, you know, polo shirts and khakis and snotty spoiled brats who drank their way through expensive colleges without a concern for their Cs and Ds because they knew mommy and daddy would pay their rent after graduation. Oh, it is a dreadful place for the thinking person, a blur of over-priced rainbow cocktails, plagued by the sticky stench of spilled Heineken and name brand cologne, the high-pitched wailing of fake blonds and eight dollar drunks and the baritone of former prep school football players, and the utter absence of intellectual stimulation. Once I met this guy there who looked like Philip Seymour-Hoffman and he thought that meant he had to talk like Philip Seymour-Hoffman and if Philip Seymour-Hoffman had played a role where he was the son of a wealthy New England doctor and they spent most of the time on a yacht, well then, he could have been Philip Seymour-Hoffman.

Rumors are like that. They stink. They are most often untrue and can ruin lives. We can try to close our ears, but sometimes we just cannot do it. I had the misfortune of finding out what John Fay said to Marty about Tuesday. Oh what dreams may come! When the team goes home, one sliver may be gone, one sharp thorn in the side of goodness. Better, though, is the addition of a shining light, a glimpse into the glory of the future. I'm going to spread a rumor...

He thinks the Reds might call up Jay Bruce and DFA Corey Patterson. I've had the same feeling. Maybe it's not a feeling. Maybe it's just logic. Maybe it's just doing the right thing, the smart thing, the thing that should have been done weeks ago when it was evident Corey Patterson was just Corey Patterson, not some bizarro world form of Corey Patterson who might go against his career numbers and actually hit.

Oh, what a joyous day this will be! How fantastic, how divine! Perhaps the baseball gods are intervening to save us from this despair we call the 2008 Cincinnati Reds!

If it's true, I will be there!

Bruce went 2-4 yesterday to better his numbers to .369/.397/.661.
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