that’s probably easily answered by wikipedia or some such, but I’ll ask it here: am I correct in remembering that there was a middle child in the family who just up and disappeared one season?

Stupid links.

Here.

And Here.

I think I’m going to stop now…

"When I talked to Adam, I told him, ‘Don’t try to be something you’re not,’ " Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin said. "Just be Adam Dunn. And he’s been exactly that.""

What a difference this attitude must make for everybody. “Just do what you do well and it will be more than enough.”

All I know is that I’m getting a heck of a lot more at-bats with runners on base," third baseman Mark Reynolds said.

That is a good thing right? I get confused about this following the Reds.

Here’s what you don’t see in the box score: Dunn has freed the Diamondbacks’ hitters up to be themselves. When a team doesn’t have a true clean-up hitter, others try to compensate. They fail most of the time because they’re trying to be something they’re not. But with Dunn in tow, guys like Chris Young and Jackson and Chad Tracy don’t have to try to jack every pitch 400 feet. They know Dunn will take care of the long ball.

Man, I sure miss our true number 6 hitter. He sure freed up Bako and Patterson to do what they do best.

I swear one of them (who got silver I think) yelled 5-1-3 into the camera.