What a week. The tough news continues.

Jared Ross, one of the two Phantoms selected to participate in the All-Star game, had to have an emergency appendectomy this morning.

What a crummy rotten shame. Not only is he a nice guy, he's my personal pick for team MVP, and it's going to hurt us like heck not to have him in the lineup for the next few weeks.

I hate to see him miss the All-Star festivities, too. I'll be surprised if he's not sidelined for that. He really deserved the honor of being there, too, doggone it.

I wish I could hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE and just reboot this whole freaking week. It's been one bout of agita after another since Sunday afternoon.