[Sometimes its better to devote an entire post to a subject. Other times a line or two is all it takes. In those cases, its time for the cross legged mutant]

-Thoughts and prayers to the Beck family. Growing up in the Bay Area I watched Rod Beck as a member of the San Francisco Giants. Even in my youth however, I knew that Rod’s mullet was something special… glorious in fact.

-The Predators traded starting goalie Tomas Vokoun, just putting the franchise deeper into the “Major League” strategy of relocation. Its one thing to trade a promising forward for draft picks. Its an entirely different story when it comes to goaltenders. Hello Winnipeg Predators.

-A hacker claims to have figured out how the Harry Potter books end. I don’t want to play the spoiler too much but it seems that Harry Potter has a little problem with “crymaxing”.

-In his previous start, Dustin McGowan went 1.2 innings giving up 8 hits and 6 earned runs. Today, the young righty was a Jeff Baker 9th inning single short of a “no-no”. I really don’t think you could have more of a Jeckle and Hyde outing combo.

-Cool story, the Chicago Blackhawks drafted Akim Aliu; the first Nigerian-born player drafted in the NHL.

-Think the dugout fights between Michael Barrett and his pitchers was a big thing? How about AAA player Jason Karnuth who broke bones in his face after fighting about the music selection in the team’s clubhouse.

-Milton Bradley got traded. Oh wait, no, he didn’t. Seems that Milton’s injury problems kept him from being an Athletic and a Royal at the same time. This guy seriously needs to do some yoga or something if he ever wants to play a full season month.

-The Tampa Bay Devil Rays pitching coach hit a golf shot that ricocheted off a cart path back into his own head… requiring 11 stitches. If you ask me it would have been more believable to just say that Elijah Dukes bitch slapped him.

-The Padres have a new catcher who likes to brawl. Asked about it his new teammate Jake Peavy stated: “As for the fight with A.J. Pierzynski, who doesn’t fight with A.J. Pierzynski?” That’s true Jake, but I think the bigger fight in question is the ones with his own pitching staff.