-Fight! Fight! – 17 Ejected, 1 Fan Injured in Ohio Minor League Baseball Brawl. Video in both links. More vid.

-Sad story – Escaped ‘spam king’ kills himself and his family

A 7-month-old boy strapped in the vehicle’s baby seat was found unharmed, while a 14-year-old girl believed to be Davidson’s oldest daughter fled to a neighbouring house after a bullet grazed her neck.

Never take kids down with you if you’re going on a murder/suicide mission.

-Something for Harden to strive for – Cubs closer Kerry Wood placed on DL with blister

The Cubs placed closer Kerry Wood on the disabled list Thursday for the 12th time in his 10-year career because of a blister on his pitching hand.

-Buck O’Neil becomes an immortal – He’s still not in the HOF, though. Asshats.

On Friday at noon, the Hall awarded the first Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award to O’Neil with the unveiling of the statue next to where patrons buy tickets, as high-traffic an area as there is next to the gallery of plaques.

Buck likewise admired the Hall and its willingness to honor players from the Negro Leagues, many posthumously. Every year he traveled to Cooperstown for the induction ceremonies, though none more famously than in 2006.

Earlier that year, the Hall allowed a dozen experts on the Negro Leagues to vote in a special election that would honor previously snubbed players, owners and executives. The intent, as much as anything, was to get Buck into the Hall.

The group chose 17 people. Buck wasn’t one of them.

-Peanut-free zone at Safeco – Can we get a section where they ban alcohol? There is nothing worse than a drunk making an ass of himself, ruining MY time.

-Rob at 6-4-2 scares me to death with a link – Even if the Angels played .500 ball from here on out, they would still be a 92-win team.

-A late link from xbhaskarx in yesterday’s DLD -

this obviously belongs in the DLD

I once asked a prominent relief pitcher to describe the most idiotic thing he had witnessed in the big leagues. “That’s easy,” he said, and launched into the story of a former teammate—an All-Star outfielder—who refused to use toilet paper. A clubhouse attendant supplied the player with a daily ration of hand towels, which, when soiled, would be flushed.

One afternoon the reliever came in from batting practice to find the locker room awash in frantic maintenance workers. When he asked a plumber what all the fuss was about, he was told that a washcloth-clogged toilet had overflowed and was threatening to submerge the bathroom stalls. “Of all the dumb stuff I’ve seen that particular outfielder do,” the stopper told me, “that was the dumbest.”

That particular outfielder was, of course, Manny Ramirez.

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Finally, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to BobbyCrosbysGirl and Mr. Poppy!

Say that five times fast.

in promos for Root Beer Float Day, when they say, “You can get an autograph if you tip extra.” Does that mean tucking a few dollars into Lenny’s speedo?

But Nico gets some lovin from a non-goat.

Let me be the first to say that a vote for non-Rickey in that poll makes you insane.

Just let it go.

when they read this headline today in the Chronicle sports section and thought contract extension?

Now that Ellis is the Man, how will he handle it?

aw, drat, wrong Ellis.