RADAR GUN: CUBS FANS THROW HARDER THAN PLAYERS
Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, also known on Chicago's north side as "Satan Himself," the "The Darkest Prince Of All That Is Forever Evil," and "That F&^*in' D#%$head," touched off an object-tossing melee last weekend by hitting a three-run ninth-inning homer to beat the Cubs, 8-6. Pierzynski, who earlier this year sparked a bench-clearing brawl between the two teams by having the unmitigated audacity to score on a play at home plate, yanked a pitch into the bleachers and within seconds, objects were flying onto the field, including beer bottles, baseballs, programs, cushions, nachos, pizza, pieces of sheet metal, a DeWalt belt sander, three sections of sewer pipe, concrete reinforced rebar, a backhoe, frozen excrement from a jetliner, Steve Bartman's head, and a Hammond B-3 organ with rotating Leslie speaker. The organ was later retrieved by a Doobie Brothers roadie. The Cubs' request to turn themselves into a soccer team was once again denied by the league office.
KNICKS HIT IN KNEE WITH RUBBER HAMMER, FIRE LARRY BROWN
Out of sheer reflex the New York Knicks fired coach Larry Brown after one year and will replace him with GM Isaiah Thomas, whose scheduled firing date is June 9th, 2007.
NASCAR PEPSI 400 RUN ENTIRELY ON PEPSI
The cars in Sunday's Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway ran on a fuel mix of mostly Pepsi with a splash of Sierra Mist and rocket fuel. Temperatures reached into the 90s at the track, forcing average NASCAR fans into skimpy outfits for which all of us wish they had bodies more in line with the one below.
