Tuffy’s Refrigerator Logic

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (where the heat lamp is on):

• We can’t wait to see what The Blowtorch does with this.
• Hanley Ramirez probably doesn’t need to work on a second career, but there he is.
• SHHHHHHHHHHHH.
• Oh, THOSE steroids!
• Sad panda.
• We won’t miss the parkland soon; we’ll play all our sports indoors.
• And we used this video elsewhere today, but we couldn’t resist playing it again:

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (wherein you share a corned beef sammich with the dog):

• We hate when Greg Wyshynski makes sense.  We’re coming ’round on this Sean Avery thing, slowly but slowly.
• We’re not here to mock Vin Baker for his latest foreclosure.  Instead, we’re just glad to hear there is still a Vin Baker.
• Nerd salute.
• We believe this article about the Pixar spin machine is entirely accurate and yet don’t hold it against them.  That’s how good the Pixar spin machine is.  (We’re off to write this down in our new Wall-E journal.)
• And here we have a point/counterpoint.  First, the original:

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes):

• Best Buy will provide instant replay for the American Association All-Star Game.  (It’s an indie league dominated by the St. Paul Saints of “hey, you used to be famous; put on this tutu and get out to first base” fame).  We love that it’s basically a Slingbox (not likely to be a TiVo, as the article says) hooked up to a cell phone in the umpire’s pocket.  Yes, that should clear it all up.  Why didn’t Stern think of giving one of these to Bavetta in 2002 to let him know when to call a charge?
• “Kobe Bryant says he won’t play GM this summer” – ahahahahahahahahahahahah.
• Thank goodness: kung pao chicken finally arrives in China!  This decision by the Beijing authorities couldn’t say “ugly Americans with weak dollars” more clearly.
• We’re workin’ the Brooksin’ on Sunday.  We have a rather explosive notion in mind for one of our pieces.  Drop by.
• And now settle in for a long lunch with this classic:

Our Question of the Day (blasphemy edition): Is it permissible for us to not care too much about the White Sox/Cubs OMGOMGOMGSHOWDOWN4EVA!!?!?!  We just… y’know, it’s not even a National League game, so it couldn’t have less to do with the Cubs’ ability to make the playoffs.  And who will punch A.J. now that Carlos is hurt and Barrett’s… well, who cares where Barrett is?