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Illini Wolves - 31 points on 12 for 23 shooting (52%) Rest of the team - 78 points, 28 for 83 (38%). I don’t think I appreciated what a defensive force Wemby is prior to this series. He just absorbs dribblers from the free throw line and further in like some sort of movie monster blob. TSJ...

So they’ve won 10 in a row then lost 3 in a row and then won 10 in a row and now lost 3 in a row again. I guess it’s time to win 10 in a row again.

Ernie was the prototype “big” shortstop. They just didn’t make them like that before he came along and they’ve been few and far between since he left. Only A-Rod’s 96-03 rivals Ernie’s 55-61 in terms of offensive production by a shortstop. No one else is even in the same ball park. Jeter and...

I also think we tend to romanticize the few who were able to pitch huge innings totals back in the 70s-80s while forgetting those whose arms fell off before they got to age 30. Mark Fidrych threw 250 innings at age 21, winning rookie of the year, and his career was effectively over at age 25...

When the Reds went up 6-4, I figured it was over and switched over to the basketball game. “Oh well, you can’t win ‘em all, the streak had to end at some point,” I said to myself. So, I missed the PCA home run. Lesson learned.

Yeah. Guy on Sportcenter said “Fred Brown,” and I was yelling at my tv, “That’s Downtown Freddy Brown to you, you young punk!”

They just said Ayo’s 43 was the second most points off the bench in NBA playoff history.

Hilariously, Soroka is 4-0 with a 2.60 ERA in 5 starts for the D-Backs so far this year. That one won’t go down as one of Hoyer’s better trades.

Cubs re-acquire Nicky Lopez from the Rockies for cash. You can probably use an egg timer to measure how much longer Kingery is on the roster.

I know this will sound like blasphemy to some of the Bulls fans here, but Ayo’s game would suit the Knicks perfectly. He’d love playing in front of that crowd, and that crowd would love his game.

Good Lord! are the Cubs are pummeling the Phils’ pitching this series! A team with that payroll just cannot have pitching this bad. No excuse. They just released Walker, and I’d suspect more heads to roll soon.

Webb had reason to be ticked. He’d induced 3 ground balls and got zero outs. Two were seeing-eye grounders that just found a hole, but that Kingery play was a tailor-made double play.

I’ll take my takes going freezing cold every time if it means more of that from Seiya.

Nice start of the season for Shota. Re: Kingery, it’s one thing to have a backup infielder who can’t hit. What’s the purpose of a backup infielder who can’t play the infield?

And then he just launches one onto Waveland his next time up.