With Brandon Webb throwing a complete game shutout last night of the Atlanta Braves, he extended his scoreless innings streak to 42 straight innings. One would have to think that would be some sort of record. Well it isn’t.

Orel Hershiser, in 1988, threw 59 straight scoreless innings. Webb is the first since Hershiser to throw over 40 straight scoreless innings and only the 21st in the history of the game to achieve that mark.

Webb will need to throw to 2 straight complete game shutouts to tie Hershiser’s record.

“Just two more shutouts? Oh, I should have that no problem,” Webb said facetiously, rolling his eyes. “It’s in the back pocket.”

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Super sexy Texy from Center Field had some nice things to say about Eric Gagné on Wednesday and some not so nice things about him last night.

Awful Announcing has some pictures of the new resident hottie on ESPN.

The beautiful and talented Yankees Chick compares the Red Sox and Yankees position by position.

Anthony from the Oriole Post has video of Kevin Millar and the MASN chick getting soaked with Gatorade after Millar’s HR last Sunday.

The very, very very funny and sexy ladies at Ladies…. turned 6 months this week.

Sports By Brooks tells us that Dice-K charges $450 for a signed ball.

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician has a look at some Big East beer pong tables.

Dan from Red Sox Monster has an in-depth interview with Seth Mnookin.

The gorgeous babes from Babes Love Baseball went under the bleachers with Jose Offerman.

Peter from Peter’s Red Sox Forever tells us when Bruce Springsteen’s new album comes out.

The Gridiron Goddess tells us that John Madden on her television means it’s officially football season.

The Feed explains who “Whitey’s Whacker is”.

And last but certainly not least, Fitzy from the Townie News interrupted his vacation on the Cape to bring you this week’s installment of the “Wicked Pissah” webcast. As always, it is NSFW.

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For the second straight week the New England Patriots dropped a game on a late field goal. Tennessee took over behind Tim Ratay (4 of 7 for 49 yards; 0 TD 0 INT) with 6:12 to play. The former 49er quarterback would complete a huge 3^rd and 2 with a 9-yard pass to keep the chains moving. Then on 3^rd and 9 he would hit Justin Gage with a 20-yard pass to get the ball to the New England 28. Dontrell Moore would make two runs for a first down that brought the Titans to the two-minute warning. After a pair of incomplete passes, John Vaughn would kick a 22-yard field goal to give Tennessee a 27-24 lead with 1:19 left.

The game started ugly for the New England Patriots when on their first drive Tom Brady (10 of 19 for 145 yards; 1 TD 2 INT) threw an interception that turned into a 51-yard return for a touchdown by Cortland Finnegan. The interception return gave the Tennessee Titans a 7-0 lead. Brady, who had on the first play of the drive completed a 15 yarder to Donte` Stallworth, tried to go back to Stallworth for a short pass on 3^rd and 6 and Finnegan stepped in front and cruised to the end zone.

The Patriots and Brady got even pretty quickly. On the next drive they went 58 yards on 5 plays capped when Brady hit wide receiver Wes Welker for a 28 yard TD pass and after the Stephen Gustkowski extra point we had a 7-7 tie.

The Pats got the ball back quickly after Jarvis Green made Vince Young (5 of 17 for 102 yards; 0 TD 0 INT) cough up the ball at the Titans 23. New England then made Tennessee pay for their mistake. Sammy Morris (7 carries for 23 yards) had carries of 8 and 3 yards to get a first down at the Titans 12. Morris then carried twice more for another 8 yard and on 3^rd and 2 a Titans penalty gave the Pats a first down and the ball on the Tennessee two-yard line. Heath Evans (6 carries for 23 yards; 1 TD) then rumbled two yards, Gustkowski added the PAT and it was 14-7.

In the second quarter the Patriots would add a Gustkowski field goal with 4:21 to go before the half. The Pats would go 43 yards on 8 plays in 3:08 for the score. In the drive the Patriots would get completions of 6, 15, and 26 yards from Brady to Kevin Faulk and 8 yards to Jabar Gaffney. After a few plays that went no where and a motion penalty, Gustkowski hit the 32 yarder for a 17-7 lead going into the half.

Prior to the 32 yarder Gustkowski had missed a 33-yard try after a long sustained Pats drive to start the second quarter.

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A lot has been said about David Ortiz not being as “clutch” as he was last year in key situations. Well tonight he proved the naysayers wrong as his double in the 8th inning brought home two runs to tie the game. He came around to score the winning run on a Manny Ramirez double to give the Sox the 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The win gave them a sweep of the doubleheader.

With Jonathan Papelbon closing out game 1 and not being available for game 2, Eric Gagné was annointed the closer for game 2. Well, he was given a 1-run lead to hold and ummmmmmm, he didn’t. Gagné got lit up like Clark Griswold’s Christmas tree for 3 runs as the Halos came back for a 7-5 win over the Sox. Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez had blown the save in the 8th inning when him and Scot Shields gave up 4 runs as the Sox rallied from a 4-1 deficit.

Shields came out to start the 8th in relief of Justin Speier. Shields started out by striking out Eric Hinske but then issued a walk to Julio “E-6” Lugo. Red Sox rookie phenom Jacoby Ellsbury worked a walk as well. Dustin Pedroia followed that up with a single to load up the bases for David Ortiz. Coco Crisp was summoned off the bench to pinch-run for Pedroia and K-Rod was summoned from the Halos bullpen to get 5 outs. With Big Papi at the plate, K-Rod uncorked a wild pitch that scored “E-6” and moved Ellsbury and Coco up a base. Having struggled in clutch situations this year, Big Papi came through in a big way as he smacked a double that scored the two speedsters and tied the game at 4. Manny Ramirez promptly brought Big Papi in with a double and just like that it was 5-4 Red Sox. K-Rod would get out of the inning with no further damage done as he retired J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell.

With “I Am Shipping Up to Boston” not being played, I am sure some Sox fans cringed when they saw Gagné come into try and close out the game. He started out with a 13 pitch at-bat to pinch-hitter Reggie Willits. Gagné would win that battle as he would get Willits to fly out to Ellsbury in left. He then issued a walk to another pinch-hitter, Casey Kotchman. Gagné was a little upset with home plate umpire Brian Runge with a couple of the balls and strikes during the Kotchman at-bat. After the walk, Erick Aybar came into pinch-run for Kotchman and he would go to third on a Chone Figgins single. Former Sox shortstop Orlando Cabrera followed that with a RBI single to tie the game at 5 as the chorus of boos from the Fenway faithful started. The free swinging Vladimir Guerrero then crushed a double to deep center that cleared the bases and gave the Halos a 7-5 lead. Gagné would get out of the inning after that as Garrett Anderson lined out to Youk at first, who immediately threw to second to double up Vlad. Gagné would come off to another round of boos.

K-Rod would retire the side in order in the bottom half of the 9th but not without a little controversy. With one out and the count 0-2 on Youk, K-Rod threw a changeup that Youk fouled off, or so we thought. Upon checking with first base umpire Mark Wegner, it was ruled that Youk swung for strike 3. Youk was pissed and so was Terry Francona both argued that he fouled it off. Replays showed it was clearly foul. Wegner would toss Francona as I would have to think Francona said the magic words to get ejected. While this was going on, Youk was arguing with Runge at the plate and would be tossed as well. Hopefully Youk doesn’t get suspended for his tirade.

Oh by the way, both starters (Ervin Santana and Josh Beckett) in the game pitched pretty well. Santana actually left the game with a 2-1 lead.

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John Blewitt III, of Howell NJ, died Thursday after the race car he was driving collided with a car driven by his brother, Jimmy, and struck the wall on the 107th lap of of a 150 lap NASCAR Whelen Modifield Tour event at the Thompson Motor Speedway in Thompson CT.

According to Woody Pitkat, another driver on the track, John Blewitt’s car ended up on top of Jimmy’s .

John Blewitt, who suffered head and neck injuries had to be extricated from the race car. He was transported to Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster MA where he died from his injuries.

So Wily Mo Peña is gone. Before today’s doubleheader against the Los Angeles Angels, Peña, 25, was traded to the Washington Nationals along with mo’ money for a stranger.

So the Peña experiment is over one that failed miserably. At the time of the deal, he was hitting .218 with 5 HRs and 18 RBI. In 2006, his first with Boston, Peña hit .301 with 11 Hrs and 42 RBI. With his struggles at the plate, specifically the penchant for the whiff and his poor fielding ability it was time for him to go so the Sox could put someone who was more productive in his spot. Prior to his time in Boston he played with Cincinnati and was acquired for fan favorite Bronson Arroyo during Spring Training in 2006.

Wily Mo’s career numbers with the Red Sox and Reds are .256 BA with 67 HRs and 193 RBI. Hopefully in Washington he will get the playing time he needs to develop.

Last month in an interview on HBO’s ‘Real Sports‘, Gary Sheffield said that Yankees manager Joe Torre treats his black and white players differently, said that Jeter isn’t all the way black, and the steroids are shot in the butt. As you can imagine, his comments at the time created quite a storm of controversy.

Well instead of keeping quiet in his return to the Bronx, Sheffield took the bait from the New York tabloid media and continued to run his mouth. Here is a sampling of his comments from last night.

On the differences between Torre and Tigers manager, Jim Leyland:

“[Leyland] is real,” Sheffield said. “That’s all there is to it. You get it both ways. You get the positive and the negative, and he’s real about both sides.”

On whether or not he would shake Torre’s hand and vice versa before the game:

Sheffield also said he wouldn’t shake hands with Torre if he saw him on the field, a feeling that seemed mutual.

“Probably not,” Torre said, when asked about greeting Sheffield. Later the manager added: “It goes back to [Sheffield’s] comments. I don’t know where I would cut that conversation off.

On whether not he would have stayed in New York for this season:

“They wanted me back, it was my choice to leave,” said Sheffield, whom the Yankees traded to the Tigers after picking up his option for 2007. “Like I said before, I wasn’t willing to play first base for one year. I could have stayed for one year, but I wasn’t willing to do that.”

But could he have continued playing for Torre?

“I don’t play for the manager,” Sheffield said.

On his comments about ‘Jeter not being all the way black’:

“So if I was talking about Jeter, I was talking about my son. So, obviously, I’m not talking about my son,” Sheffield said.

“When I have an issue with somebody within the Yankees organization or the Yankees, what [the media] try to do is include Jeter in that conversation to distort what I’m talking about. Jeter is an icon. Jeter is not going to get the same treatment as Shawn Chacon, Gary Sheffield, nobody else.”

On whether or not the Yankees would hold a grudge:

“If I lose friends, so what?” Sheffield said. “I don’t need no more friends anyway, I’ve got plenty of friends.”

Instead of taking the high road and just saying “no comment,” Sheffield continued on and just created more fuel for the NY media. The story had died down just like the stories about AROD’s indiscretions. So why keep the fire burning, in my opinion it is because Sheffield likes the attention. Throughout the game when he was at the plate last night, he was steadily booed by the Bronx faithful.

“You have to be a hell of a player to get people to react to you,” he said. “So it’s pretty special.”

Rather than inudate you with a bunch of posts about some different topics, I decided it would be much easier to give you one post with a bunch of different news items in it.

First off, there really isn’t any video of the Jose Offerman incident but this slideshow from the Connecticut Post is the closest thing to it.

Michael Vick has been offered a plea deal that includes 1 year in a federal prison. He reportedly has until 9 am tomorrow to accept the plea deal. Seeing how all his friends have turned on him, it’s probably best that he accepts the plea. Let’s just hope they don’t put him in the country club prison.

Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summit has filed for divorce from her husband of almost 27 years of marriage. Word on the street is that her husband is upset that Tennessee won’t be playing UCONN this season in basketball. Seriously, she cited the good old ‘irreconcilable differences’ as the reason for the divorce.

Jason Giambi won’t be suspended by Bud Selig due to his “involuntary participation” with the Mitchell investigation.

It’s been a long while since I’ve done a news of the weird story but I thought this one might be a good one.

If you’re this Elko County Sheriff, your home life just got a little more tense and I am guessing that you’re sleeping on the couch this week. Elko County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Moore pulled over his colleague, Charlotte Moore, for an alleged DUI offense. The kicker besides being his colleague, an Elko County Sheriff’s Jail Deputy, is that she is his wife. So not only did he pull over his colleague but the one he comes home to at night.

The story gets better though. She left the scene before she could be administered a breathalyzer test so he had to pull her over again. This time he followed protocol and called for backup from the Elko Police Department. She was charged with a DUI and placed on administrative leave.

I am going to have to say that this guy won’t be getting any from his wife for a while.

And for you Big Brother fans of Evil Dick. Check out this song.

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Welcome to Carl Everett’s Crazy Hall of Fame. You have to be absolutely bat shit crazy to get inducted. The offenses must have occurred on the field of play so arrests for DUI, dog fighting and other things aren’t eligible.

Here are the members:

Carl Everett – Well you had to figure the guy it’s named after is in it right? Carl head butted and basically went mental on an innocent umpire while arguing about his foot position in the batter’s box.

Ron Artest – You could have almost named it after him instead. Maybe someday it will be the Carl Everett/Ron Artest Crazy Hall of Fame but for now he just has to be happy with being inducted for his part in a brawl in Detroit in which players went into the stands.

Mike Tyson – Yet another bat shit crazy heavyweight. The guy who has an effin’ face tattoo bit part of Evander Holyfield’s ear off during a fight. I’m surprised he didn’t try to kill Jimmy Kimmel in shower scene for the 2007 ESPY Awards.

The next inductee is actually a duo. Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson – Martin pulled Jackson off the field in the middle of an inning for “dogging it” and they practically came to blows in the dugout on national television. Only Yogi Berra and Elston Howard prevented a beating. Personally I think Martin would have killed Reggie.

Juan Marichal – Took a bat to catcher John Roseboro when he thought Roseboro’s return throws to the mound were buzzing his head.

Todd Bertuzzi – Nearly killed Steve Moore during an on ice altercation in which he hunted him down, hit him from behind and drove his head into the ice as he beat him.

Roberto Alomar – Spit in the face of an umpire after being ejected for arguing balls and strikes.

Frank Francisco – Decided he couldn’t take the heckling in the bullpen from Oakland A’s fans and beat a woman with a folding chair.

Albert Haynesworth – Stomped on the unhelmeted head and face of Andre Gurode while he was laying on the ground defenseless.

Jose Offerman – Attacked pitcher Matt Beech and catcher John Nathans with a bat on the mound after he was hit by a pitch during a minor league game.

Carlos Zambrano and Michael Barrett (Courtesy of Texy) – Our second dual induction. After getting hammered during an inning of a game at Wrigley Field Zambrano decided to take his fury out on Barrett’s pitch calling. Barrett then told “Z” to look at the scoreboard because he was the one throwing the pitches. Zambrano took offense and began a beat down of his catcher in the dugout. After they were separated they somehow ended up unsupervised in the clubhouse where Zambrano once again kicked his catchers ass requiring stitches. Shortly there after Barrett was exiled to San Diego to cuddle up with David Wells.

[Editors Note: Head over to the pages section and click on the link that says Carl Everett’s Crazy Hall of Fame, where we have taken this post and made it into a page so that we could add more craziness for you guys.]

Nominations are always open. We just need someone to go ballistic on the field of play.