Down the Left Field Line:
Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes

With the non-waiver trade deadline coming on Thursday, rumors are flying that Atlanta Braves first baseman Mark Teixiera will end up with the D’Backs. The D’Backs players mentioned as most likely to be traded are Conor Jackson or Chad Tracy, plus a prospect.
Although the Braves are said to covet CoJack, it makes more sense for [...]

Conor Jackson has been named NL Player of the Week for the second time this season. Jackson hit .542 (13-for-24) through the week of July 21-27, with a 1.083 slugging percentage. His week included two doubles, a triple and three home runs with nine runs scored. He hit two of the homers in [...]

I’m a bit too tired just now to give you the full update on the SWEEP of the Giants that the Diamondbacks pulled off this weekend. But I’ll tell you this:
I met up with Byrnesie outside AT&T Park on Saturday. Except for a slight limp, nothing as bad as the day he tore his hamstring–he [...]

I really wasn’t expecting a sweep of the Cubs, so I am not disappointed about Game 3 of the series, though I wonder what would have happened but for Reed Johnson’s grand slam.
Micah Owings, who did not throw the grand slam pitch, but who set up the situation, is going to have to get [...]

What should have been a sweep OF the Dodgers was very nearly a sweep BY the Dodgers. Arizona’s own “Equal Opportunity Start Blowers” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory Friday night–the D’Backs lost 8-7 in 11 innings after leading by as much as 6-3 early on; the Dodgers scored the tying run in [...]

It started out to be a promising day. Tony Clark was back in a D’Backs uniform. Eric Byrnes, though still unable to play, was back in the dugout. He addressed the press before the game and he has decided not to have surgery. (His injury was apparently on the borderline between needing surgery and not, [...]

Byrnesie just gave his Friday morning radio interview and he said he has been getting conflicting advice from doctors as to surgery. He was supposed to hear from the head of orthopedics at Stanford on Monday, but that doctor hasn’t called. (The doc has been out of town). So EB figured there was nothing that [...]

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Byrnesie gave a radio interview to the station at 910-AM in Phoenix Friday morning as he does each week. Yahoo Sports has published a report of that interview and our commenter, Holly, has sent me a link. Part of the article is as follows:

Diamondbacks Team Report

Outfielder Eric Byrnes admitted Friday “there [...]

By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
WASHINGTON — Outfielder Eric Byrnes is leaning towards taking a non-surgical approach to recovering from his torn left hamstring, but even if that were to be successful he would still likely miss the rest of the 2008 season.
Byrnes is scheduled to get another MRI taken of the injury Thursday at [...]

Congratulations to Brandon Webb and Dan Haren, who will represent the Diamondbacks in the 2008 All-Star Game.
Congrats also to Randy Johnson on his 289th win. ‘Bout time! Thanks to the bullpen for not blowing this one.
Congrats also to Doug Davis and Yusmeiro Petit for their great efforts last time out, even though the EOSB* messed [...]