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Many of us like to think of ourselves as Lego artists, but most of us can't do with the little plastic blocks what Sean Kenney can do. This Lego construction of an nearly scale model of Wrigley Field, which Kenney made with 57,960 bricks, is extraordinary.

The question is: Rather than messing with the real Wrigley by renovating it, can't the Cubs just play at Kenney's Lego Wrigley? Plastic lasts forever! All right, enough Zoolander-like jokes.

(If I had a criticism of Kenney's work: No rooftop buildings. Technically, of course, they're not a part of the ballpark. Yet, they've become part it.)

Lego Wrigley is the star of an exhibit called "Big Leagues, Little Bricks" at the Louisville Slugger Museum, which even without it is one of the best baseball experiences in the country, almost on par with the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Kenney also includes some remarkably realistic portraits of Derek Jeter, Joey Votto and Buster Posey, along with other baseball-related sculptures.

This is what the Slugger Museum has to say about Kenney, along with what else is on display through Labor Day:

(Getty)Fun while it lasted and over too soon, the Manny Ramirez era in Taiwan reportedly has ended.

Brandon DuBreuil, the engine behind the previously indispensable Manny Does Taiwan blog reports that Ramirez has been removed from the roster of the EDA Rhinos, his team in Taiwan, and might be looking for work in Japan. The Chiba Lotte Marines, others report, might be interested.

Is there going to be a "Manny Does Japan" blog? One can hope.

Ramirez's contract was to end June 30, but Focus Taiwan reports Manny is due to leave the country Friday. Homesickness has been cited vaguely as a reason, but then we have the Japan speculation. That's not Manny's home, of course. He's a good, old-fashioned, red-blooded North American by way of New York, Miami and the Dominican Republic. Playing here, or near here, apparently isn't an option right now. Regardless, the urge to play ball apparently still burns in Ramirez, who at 41 years old batted .352/.422/.555 with eight home runs in 206 plate appearances over 49 games.

Focus Taiwan reports:

(Getty)The Miami New Times has published new allegations on the Biogenesis case, including an amusing one that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was visited by clinic operator Tony Bosch during the 2012 ALCS. Apparently, what's supposed to be the biggest drug scandal in baseball since (or maybe including) BALCO involves a "doctor" making a house call.

The New York Daily News frames it as such:

According to a former business associate of Bosch, Rodriguez, mired in a slump that had seen him lose his starting job in the series against the Tigers, summoned Bosch to Detroit to help him.

... Porter Fischer says he confronted Bosch about the money owed to him when Bosch returned from Detroit after the Yankees were swept by the Tigers, a series in which A-Rod went 1-for-9.

A baseball source said the Yankees had no knowledge of Bosch traveling to Detroit during the 2012 ALCS.

Now this Bosch guy is a batting coach? Or are his pharmaceuticals more like magic slump-busting pills? How close was A-Rod to sacrificing a live chicken, or doing incantations to get help from the spirit of Charlie Lau?

It wouldn't be believable that A-Rod would risk meeting Bosch in Detroit — except that it's A-Rod. Reality is always a little twisted with him, so keep an open mind about it.

There's more, including Porter Fischer — the person who supplied the New Times with the Biogenesis documents in its original story — saying this: