As the Yankees head to California to wrap up a World Series bid, controversy brews back home. Did Nick Swisher take a fan’s original T-shirt idea and trademark it for himself, in order to make some extra cash? Because everyone knows $5.3 million in ‘09, $6.75 million in ‘10, $9 million in ‘11, and a $10.25 million club option for ‘12 with a $1 million buyout doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Vinny Milano (Bald Vinny to you), sells amusing t-shirts on his web site, one of which celebrates Swisher’s unique “Swisher Salute” to Yankee fans during roll call. But now Milano claims that Swisher has copyrighted the design, and is selling the shirts through Modell’s, a sporting goods chain. What’s up with that? Read more…

TBS couldn’t show the first inning of Game Six of the ALCS Saturday night because of an unplanned power outage that prevented them from routing feeds out to their viewership.  Rays fans would have preferred to stick with the Steve Harvey marathon that TBS used to fill dead air as the Rays lost 4-2, forcing Game 7 Sunday night.

(By the way, a Steve Harvey marathon consists of trying to elicit 26.2 laughs in under three hours.  Ironically, Harvey himself has never completed this endurance event.)

(Look!  It’s a Braves game on TBS!)

They did show an unintentional sense of humor about the matter, though, when their first bit of filler was the Dick Clark cheapie vehicle, “TV’s Bloopers and Crap We Found on Satellite Feeds in the 1990s”.
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