A brief summary of recent events:
1) Carl Crawford tells St. Petersburg Times reporters that he's glad Delmon Young and Elijah Dukes are gone because they caused distractions and made it difficult for him to focus on playing baseball:
"I just feel like it's going to be a little more peaceful this year," Crawford said. "I [...]

It’s finally here. Festivus. The most sacred day of the year at the WGOM. I’ve got my virtual aluminum pole out from the crawl space and it’s time to celebrate. For the uninitiated, you may ask what does it mean to celebrate Festivus? Well, of course, it means that it [...]

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I stumbled across this gem from the corrections page at ESPN.COM:
Joe Morgan's major league debut
July 19, 2007 12:54 PM
During the eighth inning of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball game between the Cardinals and Phillies on July 15, commentator Joe Morgan said he was called up by Houston in 1964, had his first hit in his first [...]

I was thinking about this Mark Cuban effort to buy the Cubs and thinking about how desperately I want this guy to own a baseball franchise. The Cubs would be perfect. Cuban's loud and obnoxious, in an Al Czervik kind of way. I love the guy like few other sports personalities in [...]

Tonight, Lucy, BabySBG and I went to watch the Eagan Fireworks Display along with my sister and her family. Like a lot of people, we went over to the Eagan Transit Station and parked on the top level to get a good view. We got there early, got a good spot on the [...]

Inspired by the crack staff at Forbes.COM and their hotshot rankings of sports' general managers, we here at the WGOM have decided to undertake our own study to rank the general managers in all of sports. The ranking that we came up with may raise a few eyebrows.

As if I didn't know it already, I'm reminded again today that not everyone goes through life in the way that I do.
I'm standing in line for a sandwich at Subway. The woman (who is about 35-40 years old) behind me clearly does not understand that she gets to choose the toppings on her [...]

Tiger Woods announces that he and his wife are having a baby in 2007. Oh sure, Tiger, where the heck did you get that idea?
By the way, today is my oldest niece's birthday. She shares her birthday with LeBron James. And Tiger Woods.

The aluminum pole is up -- no tinsel! -- the pasta dish is piping hot, I've made my annual donation to the Human Fund (Money for People!) and I'm in the Festivus Spirit!
And now, the airing of grievances!

To the Minnesota Timberwolves. You have greatly disappointed me! Marcus Banks for a number 1, are [...]

Tomorrow is the great feast of Festivus. I will be posting my annual list of grievances. Be sure to come around and add yours. And remember, Festivus is not over until the feats of strength!

I just fired off a draft patent application to a client. I have the radio playing in my office. It's late, and I need a little noise. Anyway, I'm listening to JACK FM. I know. I know. Anyway, a song comes on from Jefferson Starship. I think to [...]

Get your list of grievances ready.

Just got the vehicle back from the third trip to the transmission shop in the last six weeks. I drove 1000 feet this morning and got pulled over for allegedly failing to stop at a stop sign. BS. I stopped. I'm pretty sure I did. Well, anyways, I got a [...]

Last night, when we were out someone came and asked us if our waitress had waited on us. When I informed her that she had, she said "Perfect". Perfect?
Tonight, we went to "Il Vesco Vino" in St. Paul. We were waiting for our table at the bar and I ordered a Summit [...]

That Bears/Vikings game was just like a baseball game. You know, the game where you don't have the ball when you are on offense...

Lucy was volunteering to work in the nursery on Sunday at noon over at the church. She drove over there (it's about two miles) and she called me on the way and told me that she couldn't control her car -- she thought that there was something wrong with the steering. I asked [...]

If NDSU had beaten Minnesota in football, we could have maybe had two "resignations".
Sid:
Monson received an extension before the 2002-03 season and would have been due a $1 million buyout had he been terminated. By agreeing to the resignation, he and his lawyer were able to negotiate a buyout of slightly less than $1.2 million [...]

OJ Simpson is coming out with a new book and will have an interview on FOX television.
The title of his new book? If I Did It.
In an account his publisher considers a confession and some media executives call revolting, O.J. Simpson plans a book and TV interview to discuss how, hypothetically, he could have [...]

Katherine Kersten, a writer that I spend very little time reading (because I pretty much disagree with her), writes a column in defense of the Fighting Sioux nickname for the University of North Dakota. I'm not going to get into the politics of that issue, but I wanted to give you her hilarious opening [...]

Final Score: Minnesota Goofers 10, NDSU 9.
NDSU completely dominated play today and should have won the game. They had a chance, but a last second field goal was blocked.
Total yards: NDSU 381, Minnesota 249. The Bison completely dominated the line of scrimmage both ways. That game was theirs [...]

I turned on the radio this morning and the weekly fantasy football show was on KFAN. If you've never listened to such a show, the hosts field calls from listeners who are having trouble with their fantasy team. Here is a representative call.
I've got Walter Payton, OJ Simpson, and Jim Brown and I [...]

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown to split.
Yes, this is the WGOM and not People Magazine. I don't know why I bring this to you. I guess it's because Whitney had this squeaky clean image, which I was not buying at the time, and she ended up with a thug. And they both [...]

Got this text message from the wife this afternoon:
I like yankees b of a cute player

On their sports page, The Onion has the following sidebar item:

Twins Release Tony Batista Back Into Wild

To which I add:
“Everybody doesn’t like the way I hit,” said Batista, a .251 career hitter in the majors with a meager on-base percentage of .298. “But everybody likes the results.”

I've cut out the bag of Doritos from my daily Subway run. No, I haven't replaced it with some other form of chip. Just the sandwich. It's all part of a campaign (probably widely supported) in which there will be less SBG. More details as it warrants.

Buster Olney writes that "history may have been altered" when Pujols got hurt. Is that so? How did Pujol's injury change the past? I wonder how his food is tasting.

At the risk of sounding like a crotchety old man, you know what bugs me? I hate it when the catcher goes to the mound to talk to the pitcher and infielders automatically walk up to the mound. I mean, the catcher might be chewing the pitcher's butt, talking pitch strategy or going [...]

From ESPN.COM: 
Watch out, Takeru Kobayashi. Here comes Joey Chestnut.
Chestnut, a 22-year-old civil engineering student at San Jose State, ate 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes Thursday at the Las Vegas qualifier for a spot at the table at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
...
"I was hoping to do 40," said Chestnut, the [...]

As you probably know, Michael Vick has been known to use the alias "Ron Mexico" when he um, gets treatment for his, um, affliction.
How anyone could not laugh at that name is beyond me. I crack up just thinking about it. Ron Mexico. Puuuh-leeze.
Turns out that you, too, can get a "Ron Mexico" name, [...]