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Silly Season Opens In Baseball

The only thing I can call this is nonsense on stilts: Posey's injury stirs debate on baseball collisions Ray Fosse watched the crushing blow to Giants star Buster Posey and wondered why after all these years there are still few rules to protect catchers at the plate. If there's anybody who knows about collisions, it's Fosse. He was at the center of one of the most iconic hits in baseball history, when Pete Rose barreled over him to score the winning run in the 1970 All-Star game. Fosse's right shoulder was permanently rearranged, and while he briefly rebounded from the injury, it started a downward slide to a career that was ultimately cut short. "After Rose hit me in '70, I had two guys that blind-sided me, guys who hit me standing up," said Fosse, who stopped short of asking baseball to rewrite the rule book. "There's never anybody ejected for that." The clean but cringe-inducing crash between Posey and Florida's Scott Cousins this week...

It All Comes Down To This

Last day of the season finds Notts County fending off relegation by the skin of its teeth. After 59 minutes Notts is level with top of the table Brighton 1-1 thanks to a vital own goal. Elsewhere Notts needs Dang & Red or Walsall to drop points. Dag & Red are down 0-1 to Peterborough, and Walsall is down 1-2 to Southampton. That would be enough to stay up. I'll be biting nails for the next 30 minutes.