Matthew

You have to love Hunt's 1968 stats: 529 ab 28 rbi. It was a whole different game back then.

Well, yes, I have been nailed by a hard thrower, but he only made it to AAA, so you have me beat, AND, it hurt like hell. What gets me about ARod was all these other Yankees getting hit, and they're not rolling around in the dirt (BTW, ARod was hit on the non-operated hip), but the Yankees moan-and-groaned so much, that the pitcher got thrown out of the game on some weak excuse that he was gunning after ARod. Any other team or player, nothing would have happened. The Yankees roll over and play dead against the Red Sox, then all of a sudden, they start acting like bad asses against Cleveland? What the heck, that's a day late, and ten dollars short. I think ARod just needed some more face time on tv, just to remind people he's still alive -- as if that 460 foot bomb wasn't enough to remind everyone what a great player he is. Edit: For Spelling

All the announcers for ESPN & FOX are terrible. And they wonder why the causal fan doesn't watch.

Yankee fans be worried: Colon goes out of the game with a leg injury. You can't lose him, he's looking great so far this year.

ARod is such a freaking Drama Queen™, he gets hit by a pitch on the thigh and he acts likes he's been hit by a car.

Dislocated right shoulder. This is not good, if it wasn't for the pitching, the Giants would be out of it. On the bright side: Pablo Sandoval will be back in a week, none too soon. Giants baseball continues to be Torture! PS: On the Panda: "Bochy said he and his staff are kicking around the idea of Pablo Sandoval catching a couple of times a week when he returns from the disabled list to help fill Buster Posey's void. Sandoval has not caught since 2009, and not regularly since he was a rookie in 2008." Yikes!

I seem to remember that a sentence or two were written about LaBron's elbow last year -- he milked that one forever.

Freddie Sanchez goes out hurt for the Giants. It doesn't look good.

We don't want no stinkin' NFL team... Interesting that three of the five teams used to be located in LA. Tim Leiweke has been running the same jive for years about a NFL team. Everyone knows that before a team can come, there has to be a commitment to build a stadium, and the in no way, absolutely no way, that public money will be used -- LA, like all of Cali, is a financial mess, and cannot afford to spend any money on something as bs as the NFL. Besides, we get three or four games on tv every Sunday, who wants to take that away to watch a relocated Jacksonville Jaguars team? heck, they don't even want that team in Jacksonville! Another basketball team in the area, I can see, not the NFL, no one wants the NFL here.

"I heard they were fantastic! " Ah, the pride of Davis, CA. Thanks for the video.

We don't want no stinkin' NFL team...

They do excellent work. It's a good check on the home plate ump. Mike Krukow, the Giants announcer, goes on ad nauseum about the home plate ump's strike zone. It can be overdone at times though...

This is what getting hit by a Adrian Gonzalez line drive gets you -- pic of Jesse Crain's torso.

They asked LaBron tonight if he had change for a dollar, and LBJ said no, he only had three quarters on him.

Maybe Wade & James can't coexist. It's like James is afraid to take the game over from Wade. I thought LBJ would go Godzilla on the Mavs while Wade was in the locker room - instead, nothing.

And this was a game that LBJ needed to take over and make a major statement about himself as a player. Wade played through pain, but James disappeared completely in the fourth quarter. That flushing sound you hear is LBJ's rep going down the drain.

The Jet took off at the end. LBJ: weakest triple double in playoff history.

Great first half. If Wade goes down, LBJ better pick up his game pronto.

Too bad, he was having a good year. I hate the Yankees, but I hate more seeing a player going down with a injury.

I've been trying to get the opening to Smoke On The Water down...

It helped that the Dodgers are now a AAA team. Did you check out Dee Gordon? he looks like he's thirteen years old, and at 150, a strong wind might put him out for the season. The Dodgers are clearly aiming for next year, when the younger players will have a year's experience, and hopefully mature into big league players. The Dodgers offense is truly abysmal right now, it reminds me of Seattle last year, if the other team scores three runs, the games over.

In all these album cover threads, I can't believe that no one has yet to post The Knack's My Sharona cover, I mean, how can you not remember that cover? it was all over my friends dorm rooms in college.

Three box sets: The Style Council: The Complete Adventures of The Style Council The Rubble Collection: Volumes 11-20 The Los Angeles Free Music Society: The Lowest Form Of Music (10 cds). Interesting story. I was holding this box this morning at Amoeba's, and one of the staff comes buy and we start talking, and it turns out that he is Rick Potts! who is a founding member of The Los Angeles Free Music Society, and we had a very nice talk. He was saying that there was a symposium on free music in London about three years ago, and they flew all the members of the LAFMS back there. He still can't believe it. Very nice guy, who I always see working when I go to Amoeba. Well, that's my interesting story for the day.