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Man Down

From SuSlu's notes section on today's wonderful game...

Catcher Landon Powell, recently promoted to Triple-A Sacramento, is out with a severe knee injury and he has told teammates that it feels exactly the same as when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament two years ago. He'd miss the rest of the season and probably much of 2008 if that's the case. Powell was considered a possible candidate to split catching duties in Oakland at some point next season.

Boy does this suck.  I watched him play last Saturday and he hit a bomb to deep right center.  As a former catcher I was really high on this guy.  Maybe his body just isn't suited for catcher?  I'm thankful I don't have any residual knee issues from my playing days.  Some guys just look like they can play baseball and he was one of them.

Maybe we need to change our slogan from "We're all day to day" to "we're either out for the year or we've suffered a rehab setback."