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Former D-Back Tony Clark may retire if no one picks him up.

It's been a season of downers for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the latest is that pitching ace Dan Haren won't start in the 80th annual All-Star Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Tuesday night.

National League manager Charlie Manuel, skipper of the Philadelphia Phillies, picked San Francisco Giants mop-headed phenom Tim Lincecum, 25, over Haren, 28, mostly because Lincecum is the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner.

But there were other reasons:

Lincecum is a great pitcher, with a 10-2 record this season (including a streak where he won 10 of 11). At 5-feet-11, 160 pounds, he's tiny in an era when pitchers are more often like Haren, 6-feet-5, 215 pounds. Because of his hard throwing and diminutive size, Lincecum's nicknmed "The Freak." He leads the league with 149 strikeouts.

The Giants pitcher's ERA was higher than Haren's (2.33 to 2.01) during the first half of the season, but Haren trailed in strikeouts and games won (129 and 9-5). The fact that the Diamondbacks were such a terrible offensive team for much of the first half didn't help Haren's chances of starting in the showcase game. He would have won several more games with better run production.

We recently discovered this old picture of Conley Wolfswinkel having a cute little pool party, and since the portly developer is in the news today, we thought we'd share it with you.

Trouble is, we're not sure of the identity of the other swimmers. All we can say is that we think the guy who looks like Wolfswinkel is his brother.

That's where you come in.