Thursday, May 8th, 2008 - .500 Up and Blow Up's

Chelsea manager Avram Grant has mused about winning 18-0 this weekend over Bolton to take the EPL title. Not happening, Avram…did you know that when Major League Baseball introduced the MVP award, you were not allowed to win it more than once? Strange…Georges St. Pierre is dating Mandy Moore. Nice pull, champ…AJ Burnett is right on course for another .500 season. Just waiting for the usual stint on the DL now…speaking of .500, going into last night, the Yankees were 8-8 at home, 9-9 on the road and 7-7 in games decided by one or two runs. They’re 4-4 against lefties and 13-13 against righties...good to see the NBA's MVP not pick up the award in a suit this year…for reasons unexplained and unfathomable, the Leafs are looking to hire an Associate GM - Dave Nonis - before hiring his boss…the latest story on the blow-up dolls in the ChiSox clubhouse in Toronto is that Roger Clemens has dated both…Phil Jackson is a career 15-0 in Game 1's with the Lakers, and 19-0 with the Bulls. Undefeated in the first swing game of a series. Might explain why he's got that many rings. Sam Mitchell? Nevermind…I recall Chuck Swirsky knocking Vince Carter for signing a contract and asking for a trade a couple years later. Wonder how he feels about a commentator signing in 2007 and bailing the next year?...yeah, Latvia brings a bunch of people to the World's. I get it…Kitchener Rangers coach Peter DeBoer is rumored to be in the running for jobs in Atlanta, Ottawa and Toronto. Oddly enough, he and Paul Maurice were roomates at one point, and remain friends…if the NBA moves too fast to get another round of playoffs started, the NHL moves too slow…the more this Marvin Harrison story develops, the more you have to think guys like Terrell Owens are loving it…word is that someone is revealed as pregnant on The Office season finale, which goes next week (my money is on Michael's on-again-off-again girlfriend Jan). There is also an Office spinoff coming midway through next season…have a great Thursday.