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Was live always 49.99 for a year? I remember paying higher when I subscribed.

Moderately NSFW. Scene from the Waterboy:

Did he take Plaxico too? hahaha those picks are classic. Last season in our annual league we had someone take Stephen Gostkowksi in the SECOND round. That was the funniest thing I ever saw.

I had DirecTV years ago, before Comcast monopolized Cable around here. The only gripe was having it in Chicago weather. Between wind, rain, ice, and snow it would frequently go out. This was at least 7-10 years ago, but still the same problems persist. I want to switch over to DirecTV for tv and keep Comcast for internet, but I'm still on the fence. I want the damn Sunday Ticket!

I'm the same way Irish. I'd pay regardless as long as I have fun and can play with my clan and friends. I too have panic attacks when my net crashes LOL.

That translates to 2 AM CST (right now) until 3 PM CST that it will be down. It will be back up when everyone is off work for the day.

Do elaborate lol.

Backlash's Sunday thoughts: After 4 drafts and nearly 12 consecutive hours of drafting my eyes are numb. My dreams are going to be of player numbers and depth questions. I find myself looking at all 4 leagues as solid drafts. This year, in my experience, was the year of the QB. You better get them early or you will get stuck. Luckily I found myself on the good end of that landing Schaub in 2 leagues, Favre in one (auction league), and Brees in the other. I continually waited too long on Malcolm Floyd today, landing him in only 1 of 4 leagues. Floyd is going to be THE man in San Diego catching balls at receiver. I have a lot of stock vested in players like Arian Foster, Mike Wallace, and Ryan Matthews. I think all 3 will be great picks this year. Wallace is the number 2 man in Pittsburgh and had big play potential in his rookie year, which will most definitely carry over to 2010. Arian Foster has looked like a man on a mission this pre-season and his stock continues to rise in that high powered offense. Ryan Matthews is the hype monster rookie RB and he's definitely worth the hype. I've also invested in a few other impact rookies like Jahvid Best and Dez Bryant.

Over at VR I run a CBSsports Commissioner league for both Fantasy Football and Baseball. I have found that CBSsports is by far the best site to use, though ESPN is very solid. I am in leagues on all 3 major sites annually, but I just find CBSsports to be the best site overall (Big 3 being ESPN, CBS, and Yahoo). NFL.com is identical to CBSsports, or it was the last time I used NFL.com which was 3-4 years ago. In fact at that time NFL.com fantasy was "powered by CBSsports." Anyhow, I always cap our football league at 12 owners. This year there was so much interest, I had to make a 2nd league to accommodate for everyone. There was no way we were going to have an 18-20 team league LOL. We'd be drafting NFL bench-warmers in the 5th round haha. I have found that 12 owners is the perfect number. Having partaken in several 14 team leagues, the talent pool is extremely reduced and you really need to do your homework. I don't mind doing my homework, but this is supposed to be fun for everyone and not everyone can dedicate that kind of time to research. Both leagues are 12 owners max, though the 2nd league will have a few repeat owners from the 1st to help fill the league.

TI-87 I believe is what I had the last time I needed a high powered calculator. I no longer have it as that was quite some time ago.

I'm going to wait until they are mass produced and less expensive. 21" is way too small.

I have no problem with him sitting, so long as he is 100% come September 12th.

By modding do they mean like custom made maps?

My advice, avoid the Aromashodu hype and don't expect any drastic improvement on Hester's 09 stats. Aromashodu will be very solid, but he is a possession receiver moreso than a big play threat. I think the receiver to draft is going to be Johnny Knox. There will be a 1000 yard receiver on the Bears this year and I think Knox will be that man. Hester could reach that mark too, but I really like Knox. His speed is right there with Hester's and he has MUCH better instincts/route running. Also for your viewing pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1OjGhIFc Coors light spin off:

The Cubs couldn't send Piniella out a winner, playing some sloppy baseball and losing to the Braves 16-5 to fall 23 games under .500. After Sam Fuld grounded into a game-ending double play, Piniella took off his cap and shook it in the direction of the Atlanta dugout, apparently to say goodbye to fellow retiring manager Bobby Cox. Many in the crowd of 37,518 had already left Wrigley Field. Piniella said last month he planned to retire at the end of the season and reiterated his plans just Saturday. But he missed four games in August to be with his mom in Florida and decided this weekend his divided attention wasn't helping anyone. "She hasn't gotten any better since I've been here," said Piniella, who turns 67 on Saturday. "She's had a couple other complications, and rather than continue to go home, come back, it's not fair to the team, it's not fair to the players. So the best thing is just to step down and go home and take care of my mother." The surprising announcement -- made in a team handout Sunday morning after Piniella had repeatedly insisted he would finish the season -- led to a memorable scene when Piniella brought the lineup card to home plate and greeted Cox. And Cox empathized with his counterpart. "It's in your blood that long, but Lou's mom is in ill health," Cox said before the game. "It's a sad day for me because I kept on thinking that Lou would be back, not here but somewhere else." Piniella and Cox shook hands after they reached the plate, hugged each other and exchanged back slaps as Piniella's No. 41 was posted on the center-field scoreboard. Cox was announced to the crowd and took his cap off and waved it to the fans. Then the public address announcer ran down Piniella's achievements as he stood at the plate, and scattered cheers of "Louuu" could be heard throughout the crowd. After Piniella and Cox posed for a picture with the umpires, the managers hugged each other again. Piniella then headed to the dugout and, as the cheers got louder, took off his cap, waved it to the crowd and began to clap for the fans. When Piniella made the first of three trips to the mound in the seventh inning to change pitchers, fans behind the dugout gave him a standing ovation as he came off the field and he acknowledged them with a little wave of his hand. Third base coach Mike Quade was promoted to interim manager, getting the nod over bench coach Alan Trammell, who was thought to have been a candidate to succeed Piniella next season. But general manager Jim Hendry said Trammell was not going to be considered for the job, so Quade was selected to finish out the season. Piniella met with his team to let them know he was leaving and it was very emotional, despite the Cubs' terribly disappointing season - two years after they had the best record in the NL. "I wish we would've played better for him," reliever Sean Marshall said. "You hate to see stuff like that. You hate to see a grown man kind of tear up like that, it just shows his heart for winning and his drive for baseball and his family." Piniella finished with an overall record was 1,835-1,713. He trailed only Tony La Russa, Cox and Joe Torre in victories among active managers. Piniella's record with the Cubs was 316-293. Under the mellowed skipper, Chicago won consecutive NL Central titles in 2007-08, but missed the playoffs last year and slipped back even further this season with a new owner, Tom Ricketts, in charge. "I've enjoyed it here," Piniella said. "In four wonderful years I've made a lot of friends and had some success here, this year has been a little bit of a struggle. But, look. Family is important, it comes first." In 18 years in the majors as a player -- he had a .291 career batting average -- and another 22 as a manager, Piniella made five trips to the World Series and has three championship rings. He began his professional playing career in 1962. "It's a very tough day for him, very emotional," Hendry said of the man he hired four years ago to replace Dusty Baker. "There has been some times the last couple of months where he knew his family was possibly going to need him. He certainly didn't want to go out before the end of the year, but it's just at the point now where he need to be home with his mother and his family." Piniella began managing in 1986 with the Yankees and lasted three years, including a stint as general manager. He managed the Reds from 1990-92, leading them to a World Series championship in his first season. He also got national attention during his time there for a clubhouse wrestling match with reliever Rob Dibble, who downplayed the incident and said "we've been family ever since." After Cincinnati, Piniella had a long run in Seattle, where his teams won at least 90 games four times and 116 in 2001. The three-time manager of the year also spent three seasons in Tampa Bay's dugout, but he questioned his hometown team's commitment to winning at the time before the team bought out the final year of his four-year contract. The Cubs won 97 games under Piniella in 2008, but were swept out of the playoffs for the second straight year and it's been mostly downhill since that successful run. What Chicago fans saw for the most part was a more reserved Piniella, although he did have one dirt-kicking meltdown with umpire Mark Wegner early in his first season and soon thereafter the Cubs took off and eventually overtook the Milwaukee Brewers to win the NL Central in 2007. Piniella joined the Cubs after doing some TV work, looking for a final challenge and hoping -- like so many before him -- that he would be the manager to bring the Cubs a long-awaited championship. The Cubs' last World Series appearance came in 1945, their last World Series winner in 1908. It didn't happen, despite the promising first two seasons. "It's a tough job. But, look. I mean. They're going to win here. They've got a family owned business now," Piniella said. "The Ricketts family is going to do what they need to do to get this thing to where it can win. They're going to give it the care that it deserves. When I took this job I didn't call anybody. I came here and did the best I could for as long as I've been here. That's all you can do," he added. Piniella said he would look back later. "I'll have plenty of time to reflect, I will," he said. "I've enjoyed it. It's a wonderful place to work and wonderful people to work with and for. To end a career in a place like Wrigley in a city like Chicago with these wonderful fans, I couldn't be more appreciative to the Cub organization."

He loved to hate ANY Chicago team and covered Chicago sports. Recipe for disaster.

Holy crap, overreact much?! It's the 2nd game of the pre-season. There's kinks that need to be worked out, but it's not cause for panic. Urlacher is FINE. It was a precautionary measure to take him out. He's looked great in camp and I don't care if he sits the rest of the pre-season. It's all about the regular season. The O-Line didn't do a good job, Chris Williams in particular. The Offense got going though and the Bears starters had the lead before the game was turned over to bench players. That's also considering we didn't have Patrick Mannely and Des Clark was our longsnapper, snapping quite a few bad ones (XP and FG blown). Knox has looked very solid this preseason and Hester had some nice plays last night. Overall it's just the 2nd game of the preseason. You can't get up in arms yet. Urlacher will be fine, the Offense will be fine as long as the O-Line can work on blocking someone lol. Forte looked really good last night in his limited duty. He looks to have his speed back and can make the necessary cuts that he made in his rookie season. We'll have a better idea of how things stand next week vs the Cards as the starters will go 3 Quarters. Hold onto your hat, it's not time to throw in the towel just yet man. Also I wonder how many playbacks we will see of Denny Green's "They are who we thought they were" speech in the next 6 days.

He is an arrogant jerk (I'm censoring myself here and restraining a lot). This little weasel finally got his comeuppance.

Now you are starting to catch my drift here Crusty. They had a bare bones approach because the full truth will implicate the main man and many officials under him. This case and it's forthcoming re-trial will reveal as much or as little as the upper echelon dictates. Sadly justice will most likely be interrupted by politics...shocking.

HBO has released another short preview trailer for their upcoming show, Boardwalk Empire (set to debut September 19th). This has to be the best look that we’ve gotten of the new show so far, and absolutely the first to get me personally giddy about the show’s arrival since the project was first announced. The new series is created by Sopranos writer Terence Winter, and it will make its debut this upcoming fall. Winter will also write multiple episodes and executive produce along with the legendary Martin Scorsese, who will be getting things going very strong by directing the pilot episode. Head over to the other side to read the full synopsis and check out the new preview trailer. Boardwalk Empire takes place in 1920s Atlantic City when prohibition was going strong, and the selling of alcohol was a booming and profitable business. It stars Steve Buscemi as a politician who gets involved in this illegal venture. OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/index.html

College Releases Annual 'Mindset List' of Cultural References for 1992, the Year Most Freshmen Were Born Remember Czechoslovakia? Dr. Kevorkian? Life without hundreds of cable channels? The Class of 2014 likely doesn't. So to remind incoming freshmen and their professors about the cultural references that evaporated before 1992 -- the year most of the students were born -- Beloit College in Wisconsin has released its annual "mindset list." "A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just online," reads the college's introduction to the list. "Their professors, who might be tempted to think that they are hip enough and therefore ready and relevant to teach the new generation, might remember that Kurt Cobain is now on the classic oldies station. The college class of 2014 reminds us, once again, that a generation comes and goes in the blink of our eyes, which are, like the rest of us, getting older and older." Below is Beloit College's mindset list for the Class of 2014. For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Burt Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. 2. E-mail is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. 3. "Go West, Young College Grad" has always implied "and don't stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way." 4. Al Gore has always been animated. 5. Los Angelinos have always been trying to get along. 6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High. 7. "Caramel macchiato" and "venti half-caf vanilla latte" have always been street corner lingo. 8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities. 9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus's folks on Parents' Weekend. 10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet. 11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis. 12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry. 13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation. 14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine. 15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause. 16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways. 17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection. 18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess. 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. 20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. 21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn. 22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech. 23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars. 24. "Cop Killer" by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording. 25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks. 26. Unless they found one in their grandparents' closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides. 27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive. 28. They've never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day. 29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown. 30. "Viewer Discretion" has always been an available warning on TV shows. 31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum. 32. Czechoslovakia has never existed. 33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen. 34. "Assisted Living" has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals. 35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall. 36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones. 37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an "Annus Horribilis." 38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. 39. Pizza jockeys from Domino's have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes. 40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics. 41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam. 42. Potato has always ended in an "e" in New Jersey per vice presidential edict. 43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space. 44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs. 45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college. 46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. 47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents. 48. Someone has always gotten married in space. 49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States. 50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps. 51. Food has always been irradiated. 52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church. 53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn't he? 54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy. 55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties. 56. They may have assumed that parents' complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street. 57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife. 58. Beethoven has always been a dog. 59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola's new Tab Clear, it was gone. 60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48. 61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies' withholding tax, or else. 62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine. 63. Their parents' favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies. 64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely. 65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. 66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church. 67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court. 68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S. 69. The Post Office has always been going broke. 70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping. 71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing. 72. One way or another, "It's the economy, stupid" and always has been. 73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated. 74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel. 75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.

LOS ANGELES -- ESPN personality and AOL sports columnist Jay Mariotti has been arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles. Officer Norma Eisenman says the 51-year-old Mariotti was arrested early Saturday in the police department's Pacific Division following a "domestic incident." Eisenman declined to provide further details. The Sheriff's Department website confirms Mariotti was booked on an undisclosed felony charge at 5:45 a.m. He was released on $50,000 bail just after noon Saturday. ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz said, "We've just learned of it and are looking into it," declining further comment. Mariotti lives in Los Angeles. He is a panelist on the ESPN show "Around the Horn" and writes a regular column for the sports website Fanhouse.com, which is owned by AOL. He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. FanHouse editor-in-chief Scott Ridge said, "We are in the process of gathering the facts, and we have no further comment at this time." UPDATE: LAPD sources said Mariotti allegedly got into an argument with his girlfriend at a club in Santa Monica. The argument continued at the couple's apartment in Venice, where some type of physical altercation allegedly occurred. Police were called to the apartment, and Marioitti was arrested. He is currently being held at the 77th Street station. ----------------------------------- Chad Ochocinco's thoughts: "@terrellowens Holy jail time Batman, another ESPN analyst has been arrested, Jay Mariotti, lets see if they crucify their own like they do us."

'Beavis and Butt-head" -- the show that celebrated the slacker way of life and helped make MTV into a network that did more than just play music videos -- is coming back. The move to resurrect the hugely popular 1990s animated anti-heroes has been rumored for several days. But yesterday, sources at MTV confirmed that a new batch of "Beavis and Butt-head" episodes are in the works. The new series would keep Beavis and Butt-head in their perpetual high-school state, but it would be updated so that the pals -- who obsessively watch music videos on a battered TV set -- could lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga. The show's minimalist animated style is also expected to remain intact. The return of "Beavis and Butt-head" will be a backdoor means for MTV to return to showing music videos -- something the network was founded upon but abandoned in the last decade to make room for popular reality shows like "Laguna Beach," "The Hills" and "Jersey Shore." "Beavis and Butt-head," which premiered in 1993, began as an animated short called "Frog Baseball," which aired on MTV's "Liquid Television." The basic plotline revolved around two shorts-wearing, spectacularly immature teenage pals whose banter was delivered against the backbeat of their constant idiotic laughter. Series creator Mike Judge, who's also creating the new episodes, voiced both characters. The guys worked at a fast-food joint and were always out to "score" with "chicks" when they weren't sitting on a ratty couch watching music videos. Beavis, the blond half, usually wore a Metallica T-shirt and would morph into his crazed, gibberish-spewing alter-ego, "Cornholio," when he ingested too much sugar. Butt-head was the "cooler" of the two. He usually wore an AC/DC T-shirt and often picked on Beavis in much the same way Moe would slap around Curly, Larry and Shemp on "The Three Stooges." The duo was so successful they were spun off into a 1996 big-screen movie, "Beavis and Butt-head Do America" and a marketing juggernaut of T-shirts and character trinkets. A recurring character on the show, high-school classmate Daria (whom they called "Diarrhea"), eventually got her own MTV series. After MTV canceled "Beavis and Butt-head" in 1997, Judge went on to create "King of the Hill" for Fox. He also wrote the cult-classic movie comedy "Office Space" and last year's big-screen movie "Extract." MTV officials had no comment yesterday. Judge is "not commenting at this time," his publicist said. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/they_re_back_PZVN8lcKHQYVIYx3xAJRtM#ixzz0xIxPNqYJ

PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Strasburg's precious, expensive right arm is hurting again. Strasburg was injured for the second time in a month and exited early, this time wincing with a strained tendon in his right forearm, as the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-1 Saturday night. Strasburg left with one out in the fifth inning. Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said the young ace would have an MRI exam Sunday in Washington. "You're always concerned when your pitcher leaves in the middle of the game, but we'll see what the MRI says and we'll react accordingly," Rizzo said. "We're going to view it on Monday and we'll get back to you," he said. Strasburg was making his third start since returning from a stint on the disabled list with inflammation in the back of his right shoulder. He grimaced and shook his right wrist after a pitch to Dominic Brown and was removed without any warmup tosses — the Nationals were taking no risks. Nationals pitching coach Steve McCatty slapped the dugout wall in anger after Strasburg was yanked, another setback for a pitcher with so much promise. Strasburg was in control until he got hurt, striking out six in 4 1-3 innings while allowing two runs and a run. Craig Stammen relieved Strasburg with the Nationals leading the Phillies 5-1. Doug Slaten (3-1) pitched 1 2-3 shutout innings for the win. Roger Bernadina hit a three-run homer, Ian Desmond had four hits and Ivan Rodriguez and Adam Kennedy each had two RBIs. For the last-place Nationals, the win was overshadowed by the sight of Strasburg leaving the mound. Manager Jim Riggleman immediately left the dugout to check on his ace almost as soon as the ball landed in catcher Ivan Rodriguez's mitt. "You hate to see anybody show some signs that they're a little tender out there," Riggleman said. "Certainly with Stephen, we're going to be a little careful." Riggleman said Strasburg, who signed a record $15.1 million contract last year, wanted to keep pitching. "He said, 'I feel good, I don't even feel anything. Let me keep pitching,'" Riggleman said. Not a chance. The Nationals will surely be cautious with Strasburg. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 draft, he was scratched minutes before his scheduled start against Atlanta on July 28 and was diagnosed with inflammation in his right shoulder. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list the next day. When healthy, Strasburg has been as good as advertised. He's 5-3 with a 2.91 ERA and has allowed two or fewer earned runs in nine of 12 starts. He was throwing in the high 90s mph all night and had shut down the two-time defending NL champs. "He still wanted the ball when he came out of the game and I feel like he'll be OK," Desmond said. Strasburg's first pitch of the game was a 97 mph fastball to Jimmy Rollins. Four pitches later, Strasburg struck out the former NL MVP looking on a buckling 83 mph curve. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said before the game he couldn't wait to get his first live look at the super-hyped prospect. "I didn't want to see him leave that way," Manuel said. "He's got tremendous stuff and command." Strasburg was staked to a 3-0 lead before he threw a pitch. Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick (8-6) was hit hard all night. He walked Kennedy with the bases loaded, and allowed a two-RBI single to Rodriguez that made it 3-0. Kennedy added an RBI single in the third and Strasburg hustled down the line on a force play to beat Rollins' throw, avoid a double play and drive in a run for a 5-0 lead. Kendrick's erratic season as the No. 5 starter continued with a nine-hit, five-run outing over 5 2-3 shaky innings. He was loudly booed several times by the Phillies fans. Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard singled off Strasburg in his first at-bat following a three-week layoff with a sprained left ankle. Howard's RBI groundout in the fourth was the only run scored against Strasburg. Howard said he hoped Strasburg had a "speedy recovery." Howard was robbed of an extra-base hit in the ninth on a way-up-there against the wall catch by Bernadina in left. Bernadina jumped as if he was trying to dunk a basketball — and snagged the ball. Bernadina's eighth homer was a liner to right off Chad Durbin in the ninth. Notes: Howard was hurt Aug. 1 sliding back into second base at Washington and was activated before the game. Howard played one rehab game on Friday night. He's batting .292 with 23 homers and 81 RBIs. To make room for Howard, outfielder Ross Gload was placed on the DL. Gload strained his groin on Aug. 11 against the Dodgers after hitting a double in the sixth inning. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/38801164/ns/sports-baseball/