It's not like having Hideo Nomo around ever made sense, but it certainly doesn't now. Pointless in the beginning, pointless a week ago, pointless now.

Listen, man. We're gonna let Jose Guillen slide for now. Heck, your Tomko thing even looks sorta OK. But Nomo, seriously, what the hell?

There are no less than two hundred generic minor league pitchers that could perform much better than this, probably even fifty or so that could even give you a sub 8.00 ERA or thereabouts.

18.69. His ERA is a year, and not even an all too distant one. If Nomo is still around in two days, I'm docking Dayton Moore a Schrute Buck.

End the agony.