Quote Of The Day

Ah, fuck it.  We're piling on today!

"In this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat."

Enjoy your summer, BJ!

Player Wives

Come on down, Ingrid Gordon!

When Jeff Gordon isn't riding around in a car at 200 MPH he gets to ride Ingrid, his Belgian supermodel of a wife.  Jeff is currently listed at a generous 5'7".  His wife?  5'9".  However Jeff does is much larger in one area... his checking account.  His career winnings on NASCAR's top circuit?  118,469,869.  That doesn't include sponsorship money or earnings from other racing circuits.  Good for you, little man!

Eyeopener - We Can All Finally Celebrate

-What was stunning in watching the Dallas Mavericks 105-95 NBA Championship clinching victory in game six wasn't that Dallas proved they were better.  What was amazing to see was how mentally and emotionally dead Miami looked in the last few minutes.  The margin was large but not insurmountable yet the Heat looked as if they had stopped playing and stopped coaching.  Fantastic.  Oh.  LBJ is a dick.

-Dirk Nowitzki was the Finals MVP.  No surprise there.  What was a surprise, or at least a departure from what we've come to expect, was Dirk's reaction at the end of the game.  He ran off the court with time left on the clock and into the locker room, understandably overcome with emotion and keeping with his modest and humble image.  I like him.

-It's a big fall from story one to story two in sports.  Jeff Gordon netted his fifth career win at Pocono yesterday.  It was win number 84 in his career, moving him into a three way tie for third all time.  With Carl Edwards finishing 37th the standings became very, very crowded at the top.

-The baseball map has a chance of becoming very different shortly.  What I like about the proposals is the best five teams from each league would make the playoffs instead of current system of three division leaders and two wild cards.

-Stupid offense.  Francisco Liriano (he plays for the Minnesota Twins if you didn't know) was six outs away from no-no number two of the season.  Then the Twinkies offense erupted for five runs against the Texas Rangers pitching staff keeping Liriano sidelined for a half hour.  You can guess what happened next, both in terms of this no-no and the final score.

-The Red Sox have won nine straight and scored 376 runs during that stretch.  (Note: all figures are approximate.)  Yesterday they hung two touchdowns with the extra points on the Toronto Blue Jays for a 14-1 win.

-The San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals recorded 54 combined outs before a run was scored.  The Nats got two in the top of the ninth and that would be the ballgame.

-I really dislike the Empire and their overrated shortstop.

-Mike Tyson, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Sly Stallone were all introduced into the Boxing Hall of Fame yesterday.  Tim Dahlberg wrote a nice piece for USA Today touching on how lucky we are to have Tyson alive and very well and he's right.  The world is a good place with a healthy and happy Tyson in it.