FLY BY NIGHT

There's been a load of compromisin' / On the road to my horizon / But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me.

No playoffs and no Blue Jays game tonight make Sager go something something . . .

Go crazy?

Don't mind if I do!

Moving on . . .

• Doug Flutie is finally retiring from football after 21 seasons with eight teams in three leagues. Trust me, you American readers, you missed the best of him during his eight years in the CFL with the B.C. Lions, Calgary Stampeders and Toronto Argonauts. To steal a line from Leigh Montville, it wasn't that Flutie did the implausible -- it was that he made it seem plausible. Makes it a little easier to almost forgive him for being a scab player during the '87 strike.
• Hey, it's not safe for work, but check out Blue Mile, Edmonton's rip-off of Calgary's online gathering place from the playoffs two years ago. (Not necessarily safe for work.)
• University was not like this in my day, I swear. Northwestern University's women's soccer team has their collective tit in the wringer, pardon the pun, after photos of a rookie hazing materialized online. We're talking simulated sex acts and -- and! -- underaged drinking. And Bad Jocks promises to dish the dirt on a few other college teams.
• You must have seen this by now. Guy goes on TV. He doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of the matter of hand, his speech is rambling and incoherent. But enough about President Bush already . . . the BBC somehow put the wrong guy on the air for an interview pertaining to the Apple vs. Apple Computers court case. Turns out he was just there to interview for some low-level joe job. Don't laugh. This was how Stuart Scott apparently got his big break in broadcasting.
• Hey, the Red Sox won. With all those rainouts, I'd almost forgotten Boston was still in the league.
• Last, but not least, the Jays go to the West Coast for the first time this season for three games with the Angels. Best bets for Toronto are the first and third games: Ted Lilly starts tonight against Ervin Santana (7.42 ERA in his last three starts, including a 13-3 loss in Toronto), while Roy Halladay faces John Lackey on Thursday. With all due respect to the rookie, the Casey Janssen-Kelvim Escobar matchup on Wednesday is a near-writeoff for the Jays; they couldn't tie their shoes against Escobar when they faced him in Toronto. Prove me wrong, Blue Jays. Prove me wrong.

That's all for now. Remember that time is just a rubber band. Is that some sort of Eastern wisdom? Far from it. It's Chilliwack.