11:03 AMScully with a classic line about retiring: "You get to an age in life where you realize the wolves are getting closer to the campfire and you start measuring, how much do I want to be away?" Mad genius. So privileged to live in L.A. and hear him every night. Wish he did more radio though.
10:45 AM So what is Al Davis most concerned with these days? Not winning games, but figuring out a way to fire coach Tom Cable "with cause" in order to avoid paying the balance on his contract.
10:32 AM Cards GM Mozeliak on Mark McGwire intro. "I don't have a timetable yet on when we're going to do things or how we're going to do them. But it's not something we're ignoring." The St. Louis P-D reports St. Louis may have McGwire appear to media before the holidays.
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Deputy Barney Fife became a ringside television boxing reporter — and I know you have — then you need to see the video following the jump, below, of HBO’s Max Kellerman.
Kellerman has absolutely no intention of letting Floyd Mayweather speak following the boxer’s victory over Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday. When Shane Mosley breaks in and wants to jaw with Mayweather, Kellerman does the broadcasting equivalent of fumbling in his shirt pocket for a bullet, before cutting Mayweather off completely. Reaction around the Internets has been pretty harsh on the former ESPN “Around the Horn” host.
• FAN IQ finds footage from Sunday of Shaq thinking he’s really Superman, as the Big Cactus soars into Spurs spectators:
• 100% INJURY RATE loves the smell of napalm and pine tar in the morning, as Marlins reliever Logan Kensing likes to shoot at animals from helicopters.
