Boy, you write something in a Chum Bucket post and the next thing you know a professional sports writer covers the same topic.  Now I'm not dumb enough to believe that one as anything to do with the other, but it is a nice coincidence .

Before sitting out Sunday afternoon's win against San Diego -- he hasn't started a day game this season -- Rabelo had served as Florida's starting backstop in 15 of 21 games since coming off the disabled list. Naturally, this has some believing Rabelo has displaced Matt Treanor as the team's everyday catcher, despite their near-identical numbers.

''[It] kind of seems like he is the everyday guy now, if you ask me,'' starting pitcher Mark Hendrickson said.

``I mean, just because of the amount of time he's playing.''

Manager Fredi Gonzalez won't declare it, though. Rabelo won't even admit to aiming for that No. 1 spot.

Follow up questions to yesterday: I agree that Rabelo seeing most of the time behind the plate is trade justification, but exactly who is the front office justifying it to?  It can't be the fans, while I don't think they are totally oblivious to what the fans think, they don't seem to concern themselves very much with the opinions of the loyal Fish followers.  And it surely isn't the local press, they seem to be on the same roller coaster as the fans trying to figure out what the heck is going on much of the time.  Their peers in baseball? Doubtful.  Then who?

I'm not saying Treanor should catch everyday or even get most of the starts, but I'm just saying that I don't see why he sits on the bench and Rabelo plays when I can't see a definitive reason for the decision.

Your thoughts on this are more than welcomed.  Oh, and please come up with something other than Treanor is a backup catcher since that is all Rabelo has been before now.

I'm just curious.  And I promise the rest of the week won't contain quizzes. 

Hopefully you saw the great relay from Jeremy Hermida to Danny Uggla to Mike Rabelo that cut down Blake DeWitt and ended up with a collision at the plate.  After the play Mike spiked the ball.  Well, he won't be doing that again .

But strong relays by Jeremy Hermida and Uggla got the ball to Mike Rabelo as DeWitt plowed into the catcher. After holding on for the out, Rabelo spiked the ball in front of home plate.

The fire Rabelo showed impressed the team, but it resulted in a mild lecture from Gonzalez.

"I like guys showing emotions, and things like that, but that's not the way we want to be portrayed as an organization or as a team," Gonzalez said, referring to seemingly showing up the opposition. "I spoke to him afterwards. He will be fine. But it was good to show a little emotion."

Afterwards, Rabelo made it clear that he didn't mean to have his emotions come across as rubbing it in on the Dodgers.

"In no way was I intending to disrespect the other team," Rabelo said. "I was just excited. They made a great relay. I was excited."

The message Gonzalez told his catcher: "Great play, but save the end zone dances for someplace else."

Personally, I enjoyed the show of emotion being a Marlins fan and all, but I can definitely understand where Fredi is coming from.  It probably wasn't the most professional thing to do, but then again, the Dodgers won the game so it is not like they are going to remember it anyway. 

And it did make for good theatre last night.

It appears that Mike Rabelo is going to be the starting catcher with Matt Treanor as the backup .

Matt Treanor was on the lineup card Sunday -- no surprise, since that's where backup catchers typically wind up for a day game following a night game. What is a bit of a surprise is that Treanor has been reduced to backup status behind Mike Rabelo after the word all spring was that the two would split the duties.

Rabelo has started 11 of the Marlins' 17 games since he emerged from the disabled list on April 11. Manager Fredi Gonzalez was coy in his explanation to reporters for the reason behind his decision.

''When your name's in the lineup, you play,'' Gonzalez said. ``Seriously, whoever is playing well, plays. It's not that big of a deal.''

Gonzalez mentioned that Rabelo (.273) is hitting. But it's not like Treanor wasn't contributing with his bat before Rabelo joined the roster. Treanor was 7 for 26 at the time Rabelo started cutting into his playing time, but has gone 2 for 16 since.

Since Rabelo's return from the DL, he has caught every game with the exception of Nolasco's starts and Sunday's games.

The .273 BA argument is pretty lame considering that on April 24th, Rabelo was hitting .216 and was still getting most of the time behind the plate.

Here is what I know or at least as it appears to me:  Rabelo isn't, at this point, a better defensive catcher than Treanor.  He is also a very slow and crappy runner of the bases.  Not to mention in almost in the same number of games, Treanor has thrown out 7 runners and Rabelo only two.

I'm not really trying to beat up on Rabelo, it is possible he will get better defensively and will learn the reason that there are base coaches on the field, though I doubt he will get any faster.  It is just that, don't use a .57 point jump in batting average in the last two days as a reason to justify one catcher over the other.  I find it insulting.  At least come up with something better than that.