Angels pitcher Jered Weaver will join the team on Friday in Boston and start for the Angels on Monday against the Sox.

Contrary to earlier reports, Eric Gagne will take over as the Rangers closer when he returns from the disabled list today.

The A’s Todd Walker is seems to be fitting in just fine in Oakland. His game tieing pinch hit might further that even more.

Oh what a strange trip it’s been. The Mariners are finally back in the comforts of Safeco Field.

Padres pitcher Chris Young doesn’t seem to mind pitching away from Petco Park at all.

The Dodgers are hoping Rafael Furcal will be activated before Friday’s game from the disabled list.

Two of the three injured Diamondbacks outfielders are getting better and should return soon.

The Giants unveiled the All-Star memorabilia that will be up for auction at the DHL All-Star Fan Fest on July 10 at AT&T Park.

The Rockies starting pitchers are enjoying their early season success.

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen’s tirade on April 4th about his pitchers sucking has helped them with their latest performances.

Johan Santana is denying the report by SI.com that he is cutting off negotiations with the Twinkies about a contract extension.

Grady Sizemore will join his Indians teammates C.C. Sabbathia and Josh Barfield in wearing #42 on Sunday.

Former Royals GM Allard Baird is rooting for Zack Greinke this season.

With Gary Sheffield slumping right now, Tigers manager Jim Leyland will start him in right field on Thursday night.

Former Cardinals great Ozzie Smith is leading the voting right now for the All-time Gold Glove team.

Reds manager Jerry Narron benched his cleanup hitter Edwin Encarnacion for not running out a popup on Wednesday night.

Brewers manager Ned Yost made the right moves to help his team win the suspended game in Florida on Wednesday night.

Alfonso Soriano is struggling as the leadoff hitter for the Cubs.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have attempted only two stolen bases all season. They have been successful on one of them.

Astros minor leaguer Koby Clemens is off to a nice start in Single-A Lexington.

The babealicious Sooze over at Babes Love Baseball tells us the Padres signed Chris Young to a contract extension.

David Wright can go over to Times Square and see himself anytime he wants.

The Nationals offense is in a horrible slump right now.

Braves pitcher Mike Hampton’s surgery was successful and will miss 6 to 9 months as first thought.

The Florida Marlins have been hit by the injury bug.

Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter was placed on the disabled list with bone spurs in his elbow.

Reds OF Josh Hamilton homered in his first big league start.

Prince Fielder is beginning to become the vocal leader of the Brew Crew.

Cubs manager Lou Pinella won’t make excuses for his team’s play right now.

With all the cold weather around, the Pirates haven’t considered moving the times of their games.

Astros closer Brad Lidge isn’t happy about losing his closer’s spot in Houston.

Byung-Hyun Kim wants the Rockies to trade him because he isn’t a starter right now.

Injured Diamondbacks OF Carlos Quentin is almost ready for some game action at extended spring training.

Dodgers OF Matt Kemp landed on the 15 day DL after crashing into the wall on Monday.

Hank Aaron won’t be attendance if and when Barry Bonds breaks his record.

The stunning Sooze at Babes Love Baseball tells us that Joe Mauer is still growing at age 24.

Anthony over at the Oriole Post shares his pictures from Baltimore’s opening day.

The Red Sox picked up J.D. Durbin off of waivers from the Diamondbacks.

Carl Pavano won his first MLB game in almost two years on Monday night.

A’s 3B Eric Chavez got his sixth Gold Glove before Monday’s game.

After one day of rest, Blue Jays 3B Troy Glaus was back in the lineup.

Devil Rays 3B Akinori Iwamura is off to best start for a Japanese position player in the big leagues.

The Cleveland Indians have been snowed out for the past 4 days and have moved their series against the Angels to Milwaukee.

Jim Street tells us in his mailbag why Jake Woods was sent to Triple-A by Seattle.

Eric Gagne will be activated by the Rangers on Friday but won’t be closing right away.

Royals phenom Alex Gordon answers questions over at MLB.com.

Tigers catcher Pudge Rodriguez won’t have a day off until the Tigers travel to Toronto on Thursday.

White Sox OF Jermaine Dye is mired in a 2 for 17 slump to start the season.

Curt Schilling details his latest start for us over at 38 Pitches.

The ravishing Sooze over at Babes Love Baseball tells us why the Yankees placed Hideki Matsui on the 15 day DL.

The Blue Jays have their home opener tonight and are in first place all alone in the AL East.

Devil Rays pitcher Edwin Jackson is ready to make his season debut.

The Baltimore Orioles still have fans that believe in them.

The Mets hope to break their all-time opening day attendance record today.

Two of the Phillies rookie pitchers were rewarded with a trip to their Triple-A club after having decent performances.

Mike Hampton of the Braves suffered a setback in his return from an oblique injury.

Even though, he doesn’t have any wins yet, Nationals pitcher Shawn Hill is their best starter to date.

The Marlins were the latest team to be hit with the injury bug.

Curt Schilling is back on a regular schedule after going away from it before opening day.

Yankees pitcher Kei Igawa does not want to be compared to Dice-K of the Red Sox.

Frank Thomas hit his 488th career home run on the 30th anniversary of the Blue Jays first game.

Rocco Baldelli felt it was time to rejoin the Devil Rays outfield in last night’s game.

Camden Yards in Baltimore is still the standard for urban ballpark design.

Mark Buehrle’s left hand is still swollen but he hopes to make his next start for the White Sox.

The Twins will be watching Johan Santana and making sure the pitcher is healthy.

Royals SS Tony Peña, Jr. relied on his dad’s advice in his efforts to get to the big leagues.

Are the Cleveland Indians ever going to play another game?

Tigers’ SS Carlos Guillen almost lost his life in 2001 in a battle with tuberculosis.

Angels pitcher John Lackey is having a great start to the 2007 season.

Safeco Field in Seattle is the place to be.

Ian Kinsler missed the Rangers game on Saturday night with the stomach flu.

The Oakland A’s aren’t really doing anything to celebrate their 40th anniversary in baseball.

Mets manager Willie Randolph is enjoying the start to the 2007 season.

Zack Segovia has had a long journey within the Phillies organization.

The Washington Nationals won’t cancel games because of the cold weather.

Braves reliever Macay McBride is not happy about issuing 6 walks in his first two appearances.

Josh Willingham almost became the first Marlins player to hit for the cycle on Saturday.

Cardinals stud Albert Pujols has turned to video to help get him out of his slump.

The Reds bullpen hasn’t allowed an earned run yet this season.

The Milwaukee Brewers are keeping everything in perspective this season.

Derek Lee is showing his defensive prowess for the Cubbies so far this season.

Freddy Sanchez hopes to make his debut for the Pirates on Sunday.

The Houston Astros will retire Jeff Bagwell’s #5 on August 26th.

Could the Rockies’ Garrett Atkins be a batting champion in training?

The baseball is still not flying out of Petco Park in San Diego according to the numbers.

Diamondbacks 2B Orlando Hudson is honored to wear #42 on Jackie Robinson Day.

Dodgers OF Luis Gonzalez isn’t worried about his defensive struggles.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy has a knack for developing bullpens.

Major League Baseball is looking to Angels pitcher Francisco Rodriguez’s alleged doctoring of a baseball.

The Texas Rangers changed their plans to be only the second team to bat second at home for batting practice.

A’s 1B Dan Johnson received good news on his injured hip. He won’t need surgery.

The Seattle Mariners gave one of their starting position players a 3 year contract extension. No it wasn’t Ichiro.

Colorado Rockies pitcher Rodrigo Lopez was very happy with his Rockies debut.

Diamondbacks LF Scott Hairston had to leave Thursday’s game with an injury.

Dodgers pitcher Jason Schmidt expects to get booed when he returns to San Francisco with the Dodgers this weekend.

MLB has told Giants pitcher Barry Zito that his confiscated glove has to be fixed or he won’t be able to use it.

Padres OF Mike Cameron didn’t hesitate saying yes when asked to wear #42 on Jackie Robinson Day.

Barry Bonds is now 20 home runs behind Hank Aaron’s 755 career homeruns after taking Padres starter Chris Young deep. It was Bonds 86th home run against the Padres in his career. The most he has hit against any Major League team.

As usual, there is always a news story that comes out right after we finish our radio show. MLB announced on Wednesday night that they had reached an agreement with iN DEMAND on carrying the Extra Innings package. iN DEMAND will now be able to offer cable companies with the Extra Innings package. This now leaves Echostar Satellite, LLC, otherwise known as the DISH Network, as the only ones who do not have the Extra Innings package.

iN DEMAND is owned by cable operators Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable. They will make it available as well to the other cable providers around the country.

Any of those cable companies who decide to offer the Extra Innings package will be required to have the new MLB Channel included on it’s basic tier programming with the channel makes it debut in 2009.

“Our chief goal throughout the process was to ensure that fans would have access to as many baseball games and as much baseball coverage as possible,” Bob DuPuy, MLB’s president and chief operating officer, said in a release. “With this agreement, the MLB Channel will launch with an unprecedented platform. We are pleased with the launch of the MLB Channel to so many homes coupled with our agreement to extend the distribution of MLB Extra Innings with iN DEMAND.”

Credit Ken Griffey, Jr. for this one. Griffey had lobbied MLB commissioner Bud Selig about wearing the #42 on April 15th. Why is this significant? It is the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball.

Jackie Robinson’s #42 had been retired back in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of his breaking the barrier. Selig has offered each team the opportunity to have one of their players to wear the famed #42 on April 15th. So far besides Griffey, Bonds has also signed on for this.

Currently, there is only one member left in the big leagues that wears #42. It is Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who was grandfathered in because he has worn this number his whole career.

“This is a wonderful gesture on Ken’s part and a fitting tribute to the great Jackie Robinson and one, I believe, that all clubs will eagerly endorse,” Selig said in a release. “To make this happen, I gladly will temporarily suspend the official retirement of uniform No. 42 on that day.

“Jackie continues to be an inspiration to all of our players, and his impact will be felt for as long as our game is played. I thank Ken for finding another special way to mark Jackie Robinson Day.”

Update: The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced that all their players will be wearing #42 during their game that day. Also, Coco Crisp will don the #42 for the Red Sox.

The Detroit Tigers received their AL Championship rings before their game against the Blue Jays on Wednesday.

The babealicious Sooze over at Babes Love Baseball tells us that Joe Nathan was going to pitch if he was needed if his wife hadn’t delivered their baby. His wife ended up having a girl, Riley Grace, and Nathan arrived to the game late but wasn’t needed.

David Riske will be your temporary closer in Kansas City as Octavio Dotel was placed on the 15 day DL.

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is worried about his pitching as his starters haven’t really performed all that well.

Cleveland OF Trot Nixon is healthy this season after recovering from back surgery.

Joe Buck was surprised that the St. Louis Cardinals had no interest in Jeff Suppan.

Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk took batting practice with the Milwaukee Brewers before Wednesday’s game.

Ted Lilly helped the Cubbies get Lou Pinella his first win as manager with 7 impressive innings against the Reds.

If you haven’t seen the Mayor of Cincinnati’s first pitch on opening day, click here. Then go over to The Enquirer and read his top 10 reasons why it happened.

The Pirates will have some new food items on their menu for opening day next Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Things aren’t looking good for the Astros, as they were swept by the Pirates.

My Playboy Bunny-esque friend Sooze, over at Babes Love Baseball has a video from the Reds opening day that shows the worst first pitch ever.

A healthy El Duque is all the Mets needed to defeat the Cardinals on Tuesday night.

The Braves open the season with 18 of their first 28 games against division foes.

Platoons at 3B and LF will be the norm for the Brewers to start the season.

Chris Carpenter will miss at least one start for the Cardinals with elbow inflammation.

Now that the Cubs are being sold at the end of the season, could Mark Cuban be interested in buying the team.

Diamondbacks rookie Micah Owings is psyched for his start against the Nationals on Friday.

Dodgers SS Rafael Furcal is about 1-2 weeks away from returning from the injury he suffered in a collision on March 22nd.

Someone should tell Barry Bonds that the Giants pay him for his bat, not his base stealing ability.

Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez is still trying to figure out what roles his bullpen guys will have.

Cristian Guzman and Nook Logan will miss at least 2 weeks for the Nationals after suffering injuries on opening day.

The Padres rewarded their new skipper Bud Black with a win on opening day.

Michael Bourn wants to show the Phillies he deserves to be in the big leagues.

The Pirates first pick in the 2006 draft, Brad Lincoln, is out for at least a year after undergoing Tommy John surgery.

Rockies 2B Kaz Matsui failed to homer after doing so on the past three opening days.