-- So after Joel Hanrahan blew saves in back-to-back games, the Nationals turned to Saul Rivera to close out yesterday's game ... and he promptly blew it. Three blown saves in three straight games! Kudos to you, Washington Baseball Club. My guess is the Nats haven't yet given up on Hanrahan as their closer. They probably put Rivera in for the ninth because they didn't want to overwork an already-struggling Hanrahan. Sure, Rivera could have perhaps stolen the job with a neat-and-tidy 1-2-3 inning. But instead he bought himself a ticket back to the minors. (He was optioned back to Triple-A after the game.) Oh, Washington, what are we going to do with you?

-- If we still did Line of the Day, Matt Kemp would have won it yesterday. Three-for-5, 2 HR, 3 runs, 5 RBI? Thank you, sir! I bitched yet again on Twitter about Torre batting Kemp seventh. Someone asked me where I'd hit Kemp. My answer: Kemp needs to bat third, Manny fourth and Ethier fifth. Loney and Martin must be pushed down the order!

-- I still can't figure out whether Jose Valverde is really hurt or just dealing with a bit of minor back pain. I don't think the Astros can, either. I'm starting him in my weekly-lineup league this coming week but feel quite nervous about it.

-- Want to know what's freakin' sad? In that same weekly-lineup league, I picked up Opening Day hero, week-two zero Emilio Bonifacio and started him this past week ... and it ended up being a good decision. Sure, Bonifacio mostly just stood around, failing to get on base. But he did score four runs since Monday. The guy I started him instead of was Alexei Ramirez, who produced all of one RBI in the same time frame. BTW, I'm going with Akinori Iwamuru next week, giving me three different starting second basemen in as many weeks. That's how you know you fucked up in your draft!

-- Adam LaRoche has now sucked in three straight games. I wonder if he accidentally looked at a calendar, saw it was April and got zapped back to reality. Kind of like in Somewhere in Time when Chris Reeve saw that damn penny. (Yeah, I just dropped a chick flick reference on y'all. You want to make something of it?)

-- Thanks to everyone who suggested a caption for the Nick Swisher screen grab. This was my favorite, submitted by reader Bill (although slightly edited to cleanly fit the word bubble). Sorry, Bill, we don't turn a big enough profit yet to award you a prize, but consider your ass slapped for a job well done.

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