Notes from today's Phila. Daily News:

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* One NL scout had this to say about the last-place Brewers: "This is a dead-ass team. They're going to lose 105 games, with an option for 110." The Brewers are so bad that they're offering upper-deck tickets for $2 to all fans 18 and under when the Phillies and Pirates visit in August.

* Here's just another sign of the lack of interest in the Marlins in South Florida. In a cost-cutting move, Spanish language radio
station WQBA has pulled its announcers from the road until further notice.

* Jerry Manuel, manager of the free-falling White Sox, had a curious explanation when asked why pitching coach Nardi Contreras was fired this week. "We're trying to do everything we can to get ourselves back to mediocrity," he said.

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