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[olliejeff]

Sitting at 'Historic' Civic Stadium watching the top pick in this year's baseball draft play shortstop for the Emeralds.

Good thing Mr. Matt Bush already has $3.5 million with his signing bonus, because he isn't headed for the bigs anytime soon.

He is pretty small, like mistakable for the bat boy small. And in four innings tonight he has four

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[garrettpalm]

That's my Padres! Drafting the bat boy because they could sign him.

[garrettpalm]

Wait. Emeralds? What happened to the Beavers??

[olliejeff]

I'm still in Eugene...

Emeralds are a Single-A team for the Padres. The Beavers are still the AAA team for them up in Portland.

[garrettpalm]

Oh... whew... Shows how out of touch I am with Oregon.

And I was wondering what he was doing in AAA.

Emeralds is an ok name for Eugene, but if they had changed the Portland team's name to that...