This tells you all you need to know about Buster Posey. Despitebeing in near constant pain, he reached out to a Giants PR official today and askedhim to set up a conference call with the three traveling beatreporters who cover the team. The most important points: He's almost certainly out for theseason, he is 100 percent committed to returning as a catcher, hehasn't talked to Scott Cousins and doesn't really know what thatconversation would accomplish other than making him feelbetter. Posey also said while he didn't want to "vilify" Cousins, he"had a choice to slide or come at me, and he came directly at me."Posey would like MLB and the MLBPA to look at plays like this andpossibly make a rule change. He said he feels fortunate he onlyripped up his leg, and didn't sustai