Pablo Sandoval Injury Update

According to Andrew Baggarly on Twitter, Pablo Sandoval is about a week away from returning to the Giants, even though he's eligible to be activated on Thursday.

Bruce Bochy said trainers tell him Pablo Sandoval is a week away from activation. He's eligible Thursday.
— Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) August 5, 2012

Manager Bruce Bochy insists that Sandoval will play at third base, so a repeat injury doesn't seem to be in the cards. At least for now.

The "Panda" will likely bat sixth in the lineup with the newly acquired Hunter Pence manning the fifth spot.

Bochy has not determined what he will do with Marco Scutaro. Scutaro, whose been the starting third baseman in Sandoval's absence, can play a decent shortstop, and second base. His versatility will give the skipper a good problem to have, though.

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Sports News? How Tweet It Is

I know, I know, you're busy. All I am asking for is a couple minutes of your precious time. Gotta get something off my chest. Cool?

So I turned on my computer this morning, checked my email, saw one from the gods at World Sports Blogs encouraging me to join Twitter, minimized that message, grumbled at all the spam, ignored (again) some dude named Norton Update, saw a message from Facebook, went there to find 'a friend' ragging me to join Twitter, saw 17 other 'friends,' telling their 13,000 friends what they were feeling at that very moment (most of them were feeling overwhelmed, by the way -- sorry, btw), was directed to YouTube and a must-see video of a rhinoceros passing gas in an unsuspecting chimpanzee's face, laughed, came back to my email account, re-read the message from WSB that I never finished, grudgingly clicked off a pop-up of a bikini-clad babe asking for a date, saw WSB was also asking me to become a fan of their new Facebook page, went back to Facebook, became a fan, watched the rhino again, laughed, checked my homepage, saw that another 8 friends were now complaining about being overwhelmed, went back to my email account, and finished reading the WSB message that ended by saying something about keeping up the good work.

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