Obligatory Sports Babe
This morning we’ll go with Gunaxin’s WAG of the day, Chanelle Hayes—who, of her WAG exploits, they say is “notably working her way through the Middlesbrough team.” Sure. Why not?
Where Have I Heard This Before?
Here’s the concluding paragraph of the New York Times’ take on last night’s Red Sox decimation of AJ Burnett and the Yankees: “Burnett is paid to be an ace, though he has never made an All-Star team and has one season of more than 12 wins. At the very least, he is expected to lock down 6-0 leads like the one here in April and to challenge Josh Beckett on nights like Tuesday. He has the stuff to be a No. 1 pitcher. Translating stuff to performance is the tricky part.” Now… why does that sound familiar?
MLB Draft
As expected, Steven Strasburg went first overall to the Washington Nationals in Tuesday night’s MLB draft. The Blue Jays made Canadians two of their first four picks, but another of theirs, Jacob Marisnick of California, who went 104th, is on Twitter, and social media is one aspect of the draft that he addressed: He Tweeted: “1 of the teams said if you had a facebook you wouldn't be drafted by their team”. $100 says it’s the Yankees.
Phelps
Michael Phelps “will race in Montreal’s Olympic Pool for no more than three and a half minutes, total, on June 20 and 21,” says the Montreal Gazette. “But there’s no way to quantify the star quality being brought to town by the eight-time Beijing Olympic champion for the 34th Grand Prix Canada Cup/Coupe du Québec swim meet.” Quantifying the amount of weed being brought to town, on the other hand...
Yankee Stadium
AccuWeather on Yankee Stadium: “In right field, the newfound homer haven, the wall structure is slightly different than the old park. The main difference involves curvature. The gentle curve from right field to center field seen in the original Yankee Stadium has largely been eliminated at the new stadium. This is due in large part to the presence of a manual scoreboard embedded within the wall. Losing this curvature has resulted in a right field that is shorter by 4 to 5 feet on average, but up to 9 feet in spots.” Oh, and the fences are shorter too.
Quickly
David Letterman’s NBA Finals correspondent? Steve Nash, says the Wall Street Journal.
Cage Potato is going back and looking at some of the earlier eras of MMA, starting this week with Royce Gracie and the rest of the pioneers.
Characters from the Big Lebowski painted as in the Last Supper? Yeah, I’ll buy that.
“Tom Brady had to be rescued from the Charles River after flipping his kayak on Sunday, the Boston Herald reported Tuesday,” says NBC Sports (via Fark).
Tyler Kennedy
It’s not flashy, but it proved to be the game winner, sending the Stanley Cup Finals to a must-see game seven for the fifth time in the last eight series. Here is Tyler Kennedy putting the Penguins up 2-0 in a game they’d go on to win 2-1.