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MILWAUKEE -- The rumor began, like so many do, here on the Internet. Or maybe it started in a bar, if you believe the guy who started the rumor. Either way, when a commenter on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Brewers Blog claimed, at 9:03 a.m. Friday, that Brewers shortstop J.J. Hardy had suffered a hand injury in the mosh-pit that greeted Ryan Braun's walkoff home run the previous evening -- and claimed that a source "just informed me that [Hardy] might be out for the rest of the season," it spread through Brewtown like Wild Card Wildfire. ...