Busy day off the field, quiet on the field

Off the field the front office was buzzing with the following:
Traber has been optioned to the Zephyrs

Jason Bergmann has been recalled to help the pen, this is his 2nd stint this year

Wiki Gonzalez has been designated for assignment, because we have way too many qaulity catchers in the organization

Zach Day has been picked up off of waivers from Colorado, hold it, this is the same guy we dumped last year in the Preston Wilson trade? management questioned him and he was having troubles with Frank. well I guess since we got him back for nothing that means we traded J.J. Davis and Doc Brooks for Wilson. Their's some twisted logic for ya

Michael O'connor who was the organizations' pitcher of the year last year (10-11 with a 3.54 ERA for Class A Potomac. In 2006, he was in Triple-A New Orleans, pitching for games with a 2.41 ERA) has also been called up to pitch in Patterson's spot. Baseball Prospectus calls him a mini Livan as he lead the Carolina league in IP.

There was also a rumour that the team was being sold to the Lerner group, this was quickly denied by Selig and Tavares, so you know that it is pretty much a done deal. I honestly thought that the Malek group had the inside track but hey what makes sense is not in the MLB vocabulary.

BTW: Cincy and Arroyo held the Nats Bats to 1 hit, needless to day this extended the losing streak to 4. Our friendly neighbourhood waif gave up 5 runs 4 earned in 6 2/3 innings, Stanton, Rauch & Bergmann shut them down the rest of the way. The lone hit came from Zimmerman who is now hitting .241.