A little bit of this and a little bit of that from my browser's recent history...
...According to Baseball Prospectus, the Phillies stand a 28% chance of making the playoffs, which by my estimate, is about 27.9% more than it was just a few weeks ago.
...Sometimes the internet is just plain odd. For some reason though, this does sort of remind me of the time my friend Chip got a nosebleed after eating really hot wings in Chapel Hill, NC. I guess that would be bleedingwhileeating.com.
...Doug Glanville will retire as a Phillie. Now that Glanville's career is over, Jayson Stark's columns will naturally decrease by 50% in length. Seriously though, good move by the organization. Now, get him in the front office crunching numbers.
...Eagles middle linebacker Jeremiah Trotter will take part in the "Extreme Dodgeball" series on the Game Show Network. No word on whether or not he'll "chop wood" after hitting someone.
...Sunday, my vehicle's radio was set to 1210 AM in order to listen to the Phillies while on the way back from the Wachovia bicycle race. And so, when I turned the engine on Monday morning, I caught the tail end of a segment with "Wild Bill" Guarnere of Band of Brothers fame. In case you missed it, Monday was the 61st anniversary of D-Day.
...Speaking of the race, my brother was in town as part of the labor force to sell race memorabilia. The wares included cowbells, which of course brought on countless "More Cowbell" references by he and I (and nearly everyone else who walked by).
...Mike Lieberthal ranks first in regular NL catchers in OPS.
...True, Philadelphia might not be getting a lineup as big as London's for LIVE 8, but it is certainly better suited to the city than what Rome will get. Nothing against Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, but really, does anyone in Rome know who they are?
...As the Philling Station reported yesterday, Todd Jones has a blog at the Palm Beach Post website, which follows up his efforts as a regular columnist at The Sporting News. What is it with this guy, doesn't he have better things to do than publish his ramblings on the internet? Oh. wait.
