Huh. Could've sworn that June 7 was the first Wednesday of June. Now I have to redo my timesheets.

I believe that, other than the Lions TD, neither the Bears defense nor the Bears special teams has surrendered a touchdown this year. And by "believe", I mean know. The Vikings touchdown was surrendered by future-hall-of-famer Rex Grossman in an effort to avoid a safety after running too far the wrong way. You can look it up, as they say.

Who's the second Alexander? Doyle? You must have a mighty hatred for Nolan Ryan to assert Doyle Alexander is a top ten all time pitcher ahead of Mr. Ryan. Might you be Robin Ventura?

Yeah, namos, I'm the ignoramus. At least I can count to ten, although it is, at times, difficult.

I'll pose a different question about the anti-Ryan top ten list: Assuming that the 2 Alexanders are one, who's the 10th pitcher? I presume it isn't Koufax (Steve Koufax? Right, namos?).

I was only half listening as I tend to tune out McCarver, but wasn't he hammering on some asinine point about there not being a 1-5-3 double play in the world series since 1926 (or something)? How many opportunities have there been for a 1-5-3 double play in the world series, ever?

Given that the situation has to be first and second or bases loaded, less than two outs and a ball hit to the pitcher, without doing a bit of research, I'd be surprised if it's happened more than 10 times and wouldn't be especially surprised if it hadn't happened at all between 1926 and last night. Sure, we've all seen the play happen in some game before, but that's with 2400+ games per year--about four times as many games as there have been world series games, ever. Yet another case of using very small samples to make a dubious point--not that Zumaya made the right decision throwing to third, but it wasn't the wrong decision just because it hasn't happened in a world series game in 80 years.

Mr. Anderson:

You wrote: "It is not an accident that most of the major chains (Wendy's, Carl's Jr., Taco Bell and, the grandaddy of them all, McDonald's) got their start behind the Orange Curtain (Orange County, CA) back in the late 40s and 50s."

It's nice that you think that, but you're mostly wrong. Wendy's started around Columbus, Ohio and both Taco Bell and McDonald's are San Bernardino originals. You did nail Carl's, tho. 1 out of 4 is still pretty bad.

How about the ticky-tack roughing the passer on the Colts' last drive? The Pats had clubbed Manning in the head several times in the game w/o drawing a flag--including one earlier in that drive--which made me think that the Pats were going to draw a flag for it if it happened again. And then they did, for what was essentially a hand brushing Manning's helmet. I don't doubt that Manning was lobbying the ref to watch for the contact to his helmet and it worked out for the Colts.

I find it really amusing that one letter this morning says "hey, wait at least a day to start saying 'the Bears get no respect'" and the very next letter calls XLI to the Colts in a blow out. Is it okay to talk about "no respect" now?

"As long as MLB enjoys anti-trust exemptions, then they are morally obligated to make their product available to the entire U.S. public at a reasonable cost. Like many thousands of fans, I shouldn't be denied access to "out-of-town" baseball simply because my apartment faces the "wrong" direction."

To take this theory to conclusion, so long as there is an antitrust exemption, then MLB should be obligated to make sure that the entire US public can get into a World Series game at a reasonable cost. Or at least a regular season game. And make the beet cheap, too. After all it's their moral obligation. Of course, that's absurd, but so is the "obligation" to make the games available to everyone nationwide--what about someone who can't get cable or satellite? Should MLB be required to send them video?

And, anyway, it's easy enough to hook up a computer to a newer TV to be able to watch the internet feed. Sure, the TVs are expensive, and the cables aren't cheap either, but does Paul think that MLB has a moral obligation to pay for his home entertainment system, too?

in addition to foul shots or ball out of bounds for fouls in the last 2:00 (or whatever)--let the fouled team pick anyone on the court to shoot the free throws. Also, should probably limit the option to when the team is in the double-bonus, thus rewarding a trailing team that managed to not foul much in the 2d half.

Aaron, Ruth, Bonds and Mays all have hit 600. Which of these 4 does King think isn't a man? My money is on Bonds and that King thinks he is an Alien.

The FAA has implemented slot limits at DCA and ORD. Doesn't seem to have decreased the use of RJs.

Everyone has to remember that RJs, while perhaps not as fuel efficient per passenger mile (I don't know), are generally MUCH, MUCH cheaper to operate because the crew costs so much less and equipment cost, per person, is also less. So, the airlines have financial incentives to schedule more RJs.