R.J. Reynolds

Sorry if I seem a little down. My editor put me on probation. He found out I had my picture taken with the ref who worked the game with the ref who had his picture taken with LeBron.

If anyone had told Syd Thrift a year ago that he would leave his thriving Virginia real estate business for the job as G.M. of baseball's worst team, well, says Thrift, "I'd have thought they were nuts."