Update: Bill Hall Runs Into Ex-Wife in Boston

Hall, right, with then-wife Cheryl and then-best friend Matthew

BOSTON, MA -- Bill Hall had just gotten off his flight in Boston when he ran into his ex-wife, Cheryl at the airport. After an awkward hug and saccharin smiles, Bill and his wife asked each other what they were doing in Boston. Bill told her that he'd just been traded to the Red Sox and Cheryl said that she lives in the city now and is waiting for a flight to Hawaii.

Bill told her she looked great. Cheryl asked him how he was doing. Bill asked about the kids when Matthew, Bill Hall's best friend in Milwaukee, showed up behind Cheryl with the two kids, wearing a hawaiian shirt and khaki pants. The kids were shy around their biological father and clung to Matthew's leg. Matthew, who looks a lot like former Milwaukee outfielder Jeromy Burnitz, asked the same questions that Cheryl had politely asked Bill just a few moments before.

Bill shook the hands of everyone in the family before embarking on starting his life over once again.

Update: Bill Hall Singing "House of the Rising Sun" in Seattle Bar

SEATTLE, WA -- Mariners' recent signee Bill Hall was spotted in Dimitriou's Jazz Alley after Friday night's game performing "House of the Risin' Sun" to a small audience. Accompanied by his acoustic guitar and harmonica, Hall sung the melancholic folk ballad made famous by The Animals with an impassioned howl and a visible sadness seen only on victims of only the harshest pain and deepest loss.

His long set also included a number of other somber folk ballads such as "Rocks and Gravel", "Moonshiner", and Simon & Garfunkel's hit "The Sound of Silence".

Ken Griffey Jr. and his jazz quintet perform at Dimitriou's on Sunday at 9.

Bill Hall Gets Designated for Assignment, Divorce

MILWAUKEE, WI - Hours after the Milwaukee Brewers decided to cut ties with Bill Hall, the third baseman's wife of two years made a similar decision.

On Wednesday morning, when Hall had arrived for practice, manager Ken Macha called the underperforming infielder into the front office to inform him that they were letting him go.

"He said that I didn't understand, that his wife was going to kill him. I told him that it wasn't my decision. Then he quietly cleaned out his locker and left," Macha explained. "I feel sorry for the poor guy, but this is a job like any other. If your headlines were gramatically incorrect, I'm sure you'd get fired too."

Sure enough, Bill's wife, name withheld, filed for divorce Thursday afternoon. Hall has since been seen in taverns across West Milwaukee, where he has frequently told bartenders how much he misses his wife and children, his job, and his house.

After hitting 35 home runs in 2006, Hall has only hit a combined total of 35 home runs since.