If Danica & Ashley show up in “Speed Racer 2“, then we might go see it.

• A well-meaning “Melons” waitress helps clear the confusion about Roger Clemens mackin’ on a 15-year-old Mindy McCready.

• Ex-KC Chiefs kicker Nick Lowery is getting ready to marry to a major MILF - annnnnd it’s good!

• Having Richard Jefferson show up for a birthday celebration gets a party host all choked up.

• Kenny Mayne’s got a book out. Someday we may read it.

• John Wooden. Vin Scully. One night. One stage. Be there.

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For the second time in three weeks, Gavin Floyd of the Chicago White Sox knocked on the door of a no-hitter at U.S. Cellular Field, only to have the baseball gods open the door slightly and then repeatedly slam his hand in the door jamb. Not nice to covet! Not nice!

(Screenshot taken just before the ninth inning started; we still get tingles looking at it)

Floyd avoided marring the hits column for the Minnesota Twins for 8.1 innings until a Joe Mauer double near the left-center warning track took Floyd down for the count. (That count: 105 pitches.) Captain Wispy wrapped up the 7-1 White Sox win.

It’s true that it wasn’t the most impressive effort, as no-hitters go. Two White Sox errors, three walks, and one run (!) remind us that no-hitters meant more when we didn’t know about on-base percentage and the alchemy that goes into scoring an error. Still… no-hitter!

More notes from the contest:

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