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So yesterday’s News Du Jour was the list of who was not tendered a contract (Mike Fiers, Kendall Graveman, Cory Gearrin) and who was (everyone else). Before analyzing, I must tell my favorite true story around “soup du jour” and then we will move on to baseball.

My mother and I were in a restaurant somewhere in the midwest, looking at a menu whose choices included “soup du jour”. So my mom asked the waitress, “What’s the soup du jour?” and the waitress paused, thought about it for a moment, and realized she didn’t know. “Hang on, let me check,” she replied and then disappeared for a couple minutes.