At least this go-around of the flu in the Marlins clubhouse isn’t as bad as the last time; Josh Johnson’s already back with the team, and set to pitch tomorrow (Tuesday). Yes he missed his start yesterday, but you know because of the workhorse he is, he had to be feeling awful.

He said that if yesterday’s game had been a night game rather than a 1:10 start, he would have tried to pitch, but his whole body just ached yesterday morning. He spent the day in a bed in a hotel room of all places, because he had already moved out of his apartment in Hallandale.

The game wasn’t on TV there for some reason, so he followed it on the Internet, drugged up on TamiFlu; he was not tested for Swine Flu, but was told the TamiFlu would take care of either that or the regular flu so he was in the clear.

His whole body just ached, especially his head and neck, he felt nauseous most of the day, and he had a 101.5 fever. His temperature went down today, and he and teammate Nick Johnson saw a doctor in the AM in Miami.

Johnson & Johnson were then cleared to jump on an 11:40 am flight out of Ft. Lauderdale to meet the team in Atlanta – landed around 1:30 pm. Nick is still feeling under the weather, so we’ll see when he gets back on the field. JJ however as I mentioned earlier is set to pitch tomorrow and then on Sunday in Philly for the final game of the regular season.

JJ was happy he only missed his spot in the rotation by two days, because he can now easily hit that 200 innings mark which he really wanted to reach this season; he's at 199 1/3 at the moment. He was upset he couldn’t do that and be there for the team yesterday, but in the long run, everyone would rather have him healthy and pitch two more times then risk something worse.

The team has advised him to take it easy today, though he was stretching with the team and shagging balls during BP. His throat and chest are still a little achy, so he said that he’s drinking more fluids than we could imagine in order to knock this bug out of his system as soon as possible.

NOTE: Cody said his swelling in his left wrist has gone down a lot, but the earliest he’ll take BP would be Wednesday, but it’s doubtful we’ll see him out there before the Philly series.