Hey Tichenor! What's Your Deal?

Unfortunately, the Twinkies lost to the BoSox in yesterday's series finale. But, the excitement I guess you could say came in the seventh inning.Triple A umpire call up Todd Tichenor completed the umpire's grand slam. Tossing both team's catcher and manager. This guy obviously has a short fuse or his panties are up in a bunch. Or they are in a bunch all the time considering this guy has a history of tossing players and coaches out when he umpires games. MLB and Bonehead Selig should pay more attention to the guys they let ump the games. Obviously, this rook isn't ready to take the step up the the big league. He should stay down in Triple A to polish his skills or down to Double A to lengthen his short fuse.

Chief Z got hit with a six game suspension and a fine for his classic tantrum against the Pittsburgh Pirates. But what does he care? He made his point and gave us something to relive on Best Damn's top 50 for many years to come. He will probably miss one start and the Cubs will be missing his .261 average with 1 homerun. Plus, that Gatorade machine was not looking so hot after Chief was through with it. It was also attacked by Ryan Dempster a couple days prior. This could be because of the machine sleeping with Z's wife or playing a joke on Dempster.

That Canadian Jim Balsillie released some sketches of how the major renovations would look for Copps Coliseum. Another tectic he is using to try and get the NHL to let him buy the team and relocate. This guy refuses to give up, they don't need another hockey team in Canada let alone in Hamilton. Of course there really should have never been a team in Phoenix in the first place. Hey Bettman, there is a beautiful empty rink sitting in Kansas City. Or move another team to the State of Hockey :)

What else is there.... oh ya the Colorado Rockies have fired manager Clint Hurdle and replaced him with bench coach Jim Tracy. The Rockies have a 18-28 record and are currently dead last in the NL West. The team who made it to the World Series two years ago are 14 games out of the division lead. What happened to these guys?

The University of Minnesota baseball team opens up their regional play tonight against Baylor. Hopefully the U can make a solid run into the playoffs this year. The hitting is definitely there, they just need to the pitching to be better than usual.

The Cubbies won today in a seventh inning rally. This improves their record to a game over .500 at 24-23. The Twinkies open their series against the Rays in St. Petersburg. The Twins are currently sitting one game below .500 and four games out of the division lead. Nick Punto's groin is still sore, so we won't have to watch his feeble attempt at being a baseball player. Any other team in the league would not start this scrub let alone pay him $2 million a year. Well Baker vs. Shields, should be a dandy if Baker can pitch well. First pitch at 6:38 p.m. Oh ya here is something...Jim Souhan from the Star Tribune wrote a piece on how Anthony Swarzak should replace Liriano in the rotation. Do you know anything about baseball or do you just talk out of your expletive?