FLUMMOXED IN FLA.

More mundane moments of essentially no significance whatsoever. But check out the chompers on Lyle Overbay, taken some time before the Jays got the smiles wiped off their faces by Seth freaking McClung.

D-RAYS 4, JAYS 1

Well, well . . . well.

The question du jour -- what is it with the Jays being chronically unable to beat the Devil Rays?

Yes, yes, they are no longer your expansion-baby D-Rays -- Tampa has become more akin to awkward-adolescent D-Rays, with potential threatening to bust out from underneath the pimples, bad posture, mediocre pitching and shaky defence.

But, if the Jays are going to contend for a playoff spot, it probably comes down to holding their own with Evil Empires 1 and 1-A and whipping up on the Orioles and Devil Rays. Plus this team needs to sweep someone soon, just to show the rest of the AL that it has some killer instinct.

There is no such thing as momentum in baseball -- the old saw that you're only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher is a good adage. But still, after last night's 4-1 loss, the Jays are now 1-3 against the Tampas this season. I was hoping for something on the order of the score from a bad CFL game, like 17-1.

But this is baseball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. Think about that.

(On the DL unearthed that Overbay pic from his Milwaukee days. Here's another one.)

BARRY BONDS

It's Mother Day's weekend, so let's use what Mom used to tell us and apply it to Barry Bonds:

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

That was the gist of his Scott Miller column at CBS Sportsline -- Tommy Lasorda unloaded on Bonds a couple days ago, but now has no comment. Vin Scully, who said earlier he hopes he isn't broadcasting when Bonds hits 714 or 715, won't take time out from this triple play to talk about Bonds.

It is a big story. Don't get me wrong. But honestly, I can't summon up any emotion one way or the other, and this after I defended Bonds.

It's still a very glib interpretation to say he's hit all these homeruns due to steroids. And he was prejudged while Mark McGwire was given the benefit of the doubt.

I could go on and on about how I have nothing to say about how I have nothing to say about Barry passing the Babe, other than to say let's hope he does it soon, but not against the Dodgers. Just get it over with already.

It doesn't give us comfort, it doesn't give us joy, and it doesn't even fill us with self-righteous anger.

Sure, to paraphrase a bad TV commercial, Barry Bonds cheetah all the time. But baseball let him thrive within this grey area.

NHL PLAYOFFS DAYS 22 & 23

• OILERS 6 SHARKS 3 (Series tied 2-2): Paraphrasing Cotton McKnight in Dodgeball, ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the Great Wall of China, I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt, I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel . . . but never I have witnessed anything as improbable as the goal Sergei Samsonov scored -- the straw that broke the Sharks' back -- last night. A Sharks centring pass hits Dwayne Roloson in the back, rolls down the ice, just as Samsonov was leaving the penalty box. Vesa Toskala races out to play the puck, but clears it straight into Samsonov -- who's so short that maybe the goalie didn't see him -- giving the Oilers an easy goal. Things like that start happening and you start to buy into all this team of destiny crap.
• 3 p.m., HURRICANES AT DEVILS (Carolina leads 3-1): Bob McCown had an interesting theory on the Fan 590 yesterday: This is the year of the hot team. Clubs get on a roll, but once they fall, they fall hard. Just look what's happened to Jersey. So does that mean Carolina is headed for a fall in the Eastern final? What if the crashes comes today?
• 7 p.m., SABRES AT SENATORS (Buffalo leads 3-1): Here's something to keep an eye on: when Buffalo is keeping the Senators pinned down in their own end, check which forward line is on the ice. Odds are Dany Heatley and/or Jason Spezza will be on it. Bryan Murray probably doesn't have the wherewithal to turn those two into power-play specialists, and I don't think the Senators could afford to. And this, I'm sorry to say, is why Ottawa is not going reprise the 2004 Red Sox comeback on ice.

That's all for now. Happy Mother's Day to the official mom of Out of Left Field, Kathie Sager, and my grandma, Carol Watson.