Tuffy’s Refrigerator Logic

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you before you start your day (quickie-style):

• Blah blah no-hitter blah blah.  How about an inside-the-park home run by a catcher?
• Spurs-Lakers.  We don’t think the heels are supposed to fight each other.  Get Rewrite in here!
• Craig Biggio fills out another line item on his way to beatification.
• We are endlessly amused at the notion of a Chris Mortensen vendetta.  We can believe it, but it seems so flaccid on the vendetta scale.
• Hubris alert: Formula One driver’s house nearly burns down when his trophy case catches on fire.
• Finally: Gus Gus!  We don’t know much about this MMA business, though we’re trying to learn.  We don’t know the size or the consistency of the chunks that this EliteXC organization might blow.  (The name indicates golf ball-sized and gelatin-like, but we’re still here.)  However, we have hopes Gus Gus will add one more option to our Saturday night viewing this summer.  We’re running out of Hugh Grant romantic comedies.

And the Question of the Day: In light of the no-hitter and inside-the-park home run last night, what’s the most rare sporting event you ever witnessed in person?  We can claim a July 4th doubleheader that ran from noon till nearly midnight due to rain delays, extra innings, and the Chicago Cubs being involved.  

Also, we think we saw Shawon Dunston take a walk once, but we might have been on cold medication. How ’bout you?

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you before you start your day (assuming your day starts around noon):

• We mentioned the Arizona State teams cut on SbB, but we didn’t mention the hotness released into the already baking Arizona sky.
• Chris Leak’s BCS shoes.  They’re less dainty than we expected, perhaps from all the dancing around.
• TierneyLab discusses the difference between men and women’s sports injuries as linked here yesterday.  If you will, the story behind the story.  
• Father’s Day at Comerica Park includes a fantasy package involving batting practice off Proven Veteran and World Series ringbearer Dave Rozema.  We hope he also teaches them the Crane. (Also, what we assume is a joke by Wikipedia and/or a higher power: “On December 22, 1985, Rozema and his former teammate Kirk Gibson married twin sisters, JoAnn and Sandy Sklarski in a double ceremony at Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.”)

And the Question of the Day (seeking lucrative sponsorship here): What college sport would you happily push the plunger on and blow to Bolivian?  It must be a fairly prevalent sport, so nothing too regional or obscure.  (Unless, of course, it’s funny.)