One Day There'll Be Sun

Joe Thomas chooses fishing over going to the NFL Draft. Well, good. It's kind of boring, isn't it, to sit for hours and listen to Mel Kiper yap on and on and on? Not that I won't be following the whole thing, but still-- he'll be picked in the top five and all that waiting would make me nervous.

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For some cockamamie reason I am really excited (momentarily) about the NBA, now that those horrible 82 games are over. Now the players might try a little harder. It might be the great sadness, the great missing of college basketball-- I'll take a less passionate version. Hell, I watch streetball at West 4th sometimes just to get the summertime fix. A preview might be coming. In which I ask, how does one deal with one's team's jerk player? I am thinking of Jason Kidd and what physical battles his wife and he may or may not have had.

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John Maine had a no-hitter through six in the Mets' blowout win ... trhe Chicago White Sox' Mark Buerle had a complete game no-hitter through nine, facing only 27 batters in the 6-0 victory.

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Now, this is how a Philly baseball manager gets fired. Not yet, but it's coming Charlie Manuel, watch for the ax.