Giant Eagle sponsors an Indians ticket discount on Tuesday night home games, where select seats are half off. Boston comes to town next week for their only appearance of the year.

Nomar Stalker and I had previous conversations about attending. We decided not to go, because it was the triple threat of Tim Wakefield pitching, a weather forecast of 52 degrees and rain, plus the Cavs playing next door. I got to pull the Gramps card and said it's certainly not worth getting rained on, and the Cavs are on TV, etc.

Then we found out Curt Schilling is pitching. All of a sudden, we're giddy with excitement, and now we're going. We may be able to sit under cover, they have good seats left that are cheap (upper boxes for $9!), we can Tivo the Cavs and my God, it's Schilling. It's amazing when you get older, how attending these things can be a chore.

Meal of Links

Silent Bob speaks about Jay's rehab and subsequent sobriety. Long read, but interesting.

Hey, it's Thursday. Must be time for another Pete Doherty arrest.

Shaun Alexander is the cover boy for Madden 07. That means he must deal with the dreaded (cue the music) "Madden Curse".

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The Cavs start the NBA playoffs on Saturday and I'm not thrilled with the opponent, the evil Washington Wizards. The Wizards match up very well against us. I see LeBron probably needing to score 40 a game in this series. My prediction is a 4-2 series win for the Cavs, but I would not be shocked if we drop this series, because much like any Cleveland team...(everyone!)...we don't play defense.

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