It was one of these afternoons at work where things got a bit silly. We stumbled upon the 10 Best Seinfeld Sports Moments. They are excellent choices. But I always laugh out loud at their second choice when Frank Costanza lays into Steinbrenner for trading Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps. Watch Jerry Stiller during the clip:



That somehow led us to the scene from "Arrested Development" where Martin Short plays Uncle Jack. You have to watch this for the immortal line: "Take me to the nuts! The bridge mix! Bridge mix! Fool." Get it here.

Meal of Links

Last week, I was in the frozen food section at the local grocery and needed some veggies. These BirdsEye Steamfresh Singles are really good. I have not tried the regular SteamFresh versions, but plan to. But the Singles meet all of the most important criteria: portion size, speed and taste.

I am very much sold on the new woman in Dexter's life on "Dexter". Great choice of a sponsor at his Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Her name is Lila, and I think she is one hot chick, played by Jaime Murray.

















In a few months, "The Wire" will begin again on HBO. It's a must see if you haven't watched it and you have enough time to catch up. The New Yorker has a lengthy read, almost as long as the series itself.

Exercise Yard

A real professional win by the Tribe tonight, as they go up 2-1 in the ALCS. Now the last time I had this feeling was 1998. The Indians had gone up 2-1 in the ALCS that year. I was at that Game 3 and watched Home Run Hittin' Mark Whiten absolutely crush one off of Andy Pettitte. He also doubled in that game. You know Mark Whiten played in the Mexican League, much like our present-day closer, Joe Borowski. Uh-oh. Also was at Game 4 and unfortunately that was a shutout loss against El Duque. Then someone (allegedly) mentioned something to David Wells about his mother playing in the Mexican League or something before Game 5 and that was a loss. Both at home, BTW. Game 6 was when Manny played Spiderman in rightfield in NYC and that was all she wrote. So, while it's a great feeling the Indians are ahead, I remain cautiously optimistic.

Game 3 thoughts:

Lonely Manny.


















Towel-waving? Not a big fan.

Great defense by the Indians after Ryan Garko fell down and went boom in the 2nd. Three double plays helped Jake Westbrook tremendously, as it remains the Pitcher's Best Friend.

Kevin Youkilis is not channeling Wade Boggs with his beard, but Yukon Cornelius from "Rudolph".

I wonder if Randy Marsh, the leftfield umpire tonight, is Stan Marsh's Dad from "South Park". If so, he took a huge crap on "South Park" last week. Glad to see him mobile this evening.

One-for-two on Fox trivia regarding starting Japanese pitchers in the LCS? No Hideki Irabu, are you sure? Hideo Nomo was the easy tap-in there, with Masato Yoshi being the 85-foot full-court heave to win the game with no time left.

Home plate umpiring was shaky tonight. This guy's track record was a small zone and it was early, then it expanded greatly, with seemingly no consistency. Hafner, Manny and Varitek the most obvious naysayers. Fox also mentioned that the home plate umpire's ERA was 5.11. Closer Joe Borowski's was 5.07 in the regular season.

Big-time home run by Kenny Lofton early. I thought Dice-K was at his nibbling best and didn't make that many awful pitches. Beautiful Gyro Ball, though. Most of the later scoring was done on grounders that somehow made it through the infield. But he threw 101 pitches and didn't get out of the fifth.

Incredibly poor baserunning by Big Papi in the 4th. That's bad from a rookie, inexcusable from a veteran. Especially a slow, heavy veteran. Even if his Edwin Moses act was successful, he's out at third by plenty.

Can't let the Sox captain, Jason Varitek, beat you. He isn't the player he once was and for him to put Boston back in the game with his homer in the 7th was disappointing.

Tim McCarver finally called Jensen Lewis "Jensen Lewis" tonight, didn't he?

Joe Borowski with the save in a tight game, eh? You know there is a stat that he had more 1-2-3 innings this year than Mariano Rivera of the Yanks. You can look it up.

Kill me now. Fox 8 actually has the results of the Jacobs Field hot dog race on their morning show tomorrow. Isn't there something about that school shooting that might rate a little higher? And with all of the attention going the Indians way these days and the local media falling neatly in line to cover it, are we gonna find out in the next couple of weeks that our taxes got raised again or perhaps Prohibition is returning soon and no one knows? Just curious, I guess.

It seemed odd that on the Fox broadcast they kept mentioning the possibility of rain for tomorrow's Game 4. Now I'm not sure if that was to hype Josh Beckett perhaps coming back on three days rest for the Red Sox or if the weather is a real threat. If Beckett goes tomorrow, he gets full rest for Game 7 (if necessary). Don't know if it's panic time for the Sox, as manager Terry Francona insists that Tim Wakefield will start. But if tomorrow is a washout, I believe Beckett is a real threat to start the following day.

Indians win, 4-2.

Visitor

21 Across: "Cool" singer whose group had the 1973 #1 hit "Frankenstein" (11 letters) Answer: Edgar Winter