Super Sexy Texy from Center Field didn’t let a little rain stop her from watching the Phillies game on Thursday night.

Sam from MetsSox asks if Red Sox fans should panic just yet.

Holly from Ladies… wasn’t happy with the way the Dodgers fans were dressed at a game she recently attended.

We Are the Postmen are big fans of the new Transformer shoes.

Yankees Chick shares her love hate of “Balco” Barry in her latest installment of Yankeechickography.

Home Run Derby has a look at the life-sized Mariners’ bobbleheads.

Sooze from Babes Love Baseball thinks Hank Aaron is a swell guy.

J.D from SporTech Matter tells you about Lil’ Penny and Shaq reuniting.

You Been Blinded has a look at the new NBC Sunday Night Football promo.

Sons of Sam Malone brings you a look at the the She-Man Woman Hater’s Club.

Awful Announcing has the video from the Josh Towers-AROD fight.

Dan from Red Sox Monster has the lastest “Friendly’s Scoop with Jonathan Papelbon” video. His guest is Kevin Millar.

And last but not certainly least, I present to you the lastest “Wicked Pissah” webcast from Fitzy of the Townie News. As always, his video’s are NSFW.

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How bad are things in Cleveland when you have to flip a coin to decide who your starting QB will be for your first preseason game? Actually right now the race between Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson is too close to call right now, so head coach Romeo Crennel decided a coin flip was the best way to settle it.

“That’s the fairest way,” he (Crennel) said.

Who makes the call, coach?

“Maybe we’ll play rock, paper, scissors for that,” Crennel cracked.

A hopscotch tournament is not planned.

Crennel was probably hoping that Brady Quinn would be the starter but he decided to hold out and miss 10 days of training camp so he’s not even in consideration right now.

Pretty funny way to decide who starts the game. Whoever starts might not play that much anyways but with a QB battle going on, you never know.

Just like there’s something exciting in a coin flip, sometimes it’s fun to play the football odds. There’s also the classic fun in horce race betting. The sport thrives on the betting that goes on behind the scenes. Look into the latest on grand national betting today!

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers edged the New England Patriots in the pre-season opener at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa 13-10 on a Matt Bryant field goal as time expired.

The big news of the night was that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady played 13 plays and was 5 of 7 for 34 yards. None of those 7 attempts went to Randy Moss or Dante` Stallworth who sat out the game as did running back Lawrence Maroney.

Jeff Garcia started for the Bucs and he worked a pair of 3 and out series.

Pre-season games, especially week one, usually show case many of the minor players and this game was no exception as each team played three quarterbacks. The Pats also gave signal calling time to Matt Cassel and Matt Gutierrez, while Tampa saw Luke McCown and Bruce Gradkowski see time behind center.

New England got on the board first when Sammy Morris scored on a two-yard run that capped a long second quarter drive led by Cassel. Morris had 27 yards for nine carries on the night.

The Bucs got on the board, when Bryant kicked the first of two field goals on the night this one a 36-yarder that cut the lead to 7-3. McCown, who didn’t play at all last season, threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Paris Warren and the Buccaneers led 10-7 at half.

Gutierrez would lead the Patriots on a 4th quarter drive that was capped by a Stephen Gostkowski 23-yard field goal and the Pats had tied the game 10-10 with about 11 minutes left.

That set the stage for the final drive and Bryant’s field goal to win it as time expired.

Mascot name that is… The Pittsburgh Steelers are proud to announce their new mascot “Steely McBeam”

Next thing you know the Anaheim Ducks will change their mascot name from Wild Wing to Long Duck Dong.

Roger Clemens was suspended 5 games by MLB disciplinarian Bob Watson and also fined an undisclosed amount of money for beaning Alex Rios in the back. Joe Torre was also suspended 1 game as well.

Clemens was ejected from the game after beaning Rios. The reason Clemens hits Rios was to protect his hitter, Alex Rodriguez, who had been hit in the knee earlier by Josh Towers incident. The beanings really stem from back in May when AROD said something in the direction of Howie Clark when he was going to catch a pop up.

While the punishment fits the crime, shouldn’t have Towers been suspended as well. To me, it’s a part of the game to protect your hitter.

New York Mets starting pitcher Pedro Martinez made a Class A rehab start Wednesday in Port St. Lucie Fla and pretty much got rocked by a bunch of high school kids.

Martinez, a 3-time Cy Young Award winner and former Red Sox ace, gave up five runs and six hits in the game against the Lakeland Flying Tigers on Wednesday, as he attempts to return to the New York rotation after offseason shoulder surgery.

Pedro whiffed five, as he threw 63 pitches (44 were strikes), he didn’t walk anyone but was hit hard when he missed. 40 of his pitches were fastballs he topped out at 89 mph and averaged only 86 mph.

He also gave up two homeruns, one to Justin Justice and the other to Deik Scram. He said both bombs came on sinkers.

The 35-year-old Martinez had his rotator cuff repaired in October and has been working toward a return all season. The right-hander first threw to batters on June 26.

I was just looking at an article on ESPN.com about Rockies pitcher Jason Hirsh who pitched five innings with a broken leg. So can someone please tell what the picture of David Wells has to do with this?

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According to J.A. Adande, in a special piece written for ESPN.com Reggie Miller is contemplating a return to the NBA, this time as a member of the Boston Celtics.

Miller, who is 42, retired after the 2005 season having spent his entire 18-year career with the Indiana Pacers. Since his retirement he has been a NBA analyst for TNT.

Miller, a five-time NBA all-star, was contacted by Celtics general manager Danny Ainge and coach Doc Rivers about a return in which they invision him playing 15 minutes a game in a reserve role.

According to Adande, Miller is calling friends and peers to gather their opinions on a possible return. Miller is unsure if he wants to put up with the grind of an 82 game season. He also wonders if his body can take the training that would be needed to get back into NBA playing shape.

The lure of playing in Boston is simple. With the additions of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to Paul Pierce, the Celtics are considered a top contender in the Eastern Conference. Like those three, the only thing missing from Miller’s list of accomplishments is a championship.

Miller is 7^th in NBA history in games played (1,323), 13^th overall in scoring (25,279 points) and holds the record for most career three-point field goals with 2,560.

Y’all know how much I love finding these, especially when I don’t actively look for them.

Roger Clements???? What makes it worse that in this next picture on the same front page, it is spelled correctly.

As I said in an article a while back one of the blogs I read frequently is 38cliches.com. It’s a blog about the current state of the Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts on WRKO AM, mostly concentrating on the poor job that Glenn Geffner has done behind the microphone. As someone with 23 years of experience (1983-2006) behind a microphone, 14 of them with Clear Channel (and it’s many predecessors), I feel that I am kind of empowered to write about broadcasting and possibly offer insights that only someone who has done the job can offer.

When I was a kid growing up I loved sports, especially baseball. I knew all the teams, players and stats and that led to my grandmother suggesting I become a radio announcer. At age 8 I was hooked, it was all I wanted to do. And for 23 years I was able to do it. I can only imagine a similar conversation with Geffner and his grandmother.

Grandma: “Gee Glenn you sure do know a lot about those players”.

Young Glenn: “Yea grandma it’s easy all I have to do is read the information out loud from the newspaper. Maybe someday I could have a job on the radio reading statistics and telling my stories, they’re so much more important that the actual game”.

Grandma: “Well Glenn, not everyone is cut out to do radio announcing but there’s no reason why you couldn’t type the stats up for all the radio, television and newspaper guys. I think that’d be a much better job for you.”

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