GOOD-HEARTED GROUPIES

Get your dirty mind out of the gutter. The Sizemore Girls are big fans of Cleveland's centre-fielder, Grady Sizemore. He's so really, really ridiculously good-looking (uh, so I've been told) that there's a second site for his female camp followers called The Grady Ladies. And why the hell not? Not only is Sizemore a fine ballplayer, but he even knows how to turn left.

Moving on . . . moving on.

• The Toronto Star is reporting that Toronto real estate mogul Sam Fingold and his son David are interesting in buying the Pittsburgh Penguins and moving the team to Kansas City. Far be it for me to tell the super-rich how to spend their money, but Sam, Dave, look around: there's an entire region of hockey fans who are held hostage by the MLSE moneygrubbers and have nowhere else to turn. Nothing against Kansas City -- in fact, that region of the U.S. should have a basketball or hockey team -- but move the Pens to Toronto!
• Peter King makes a good argument for why the NFL should let Reggie Bush wear No. 5. Rules and regulations be damned -- that code is only in place for two reasons. To help the equipment guy and so the refs can identify eligible receivers. Well, 1) Bush is six feet, 200 pounds -- roughly the same size as the QB or kicker who would otherwise wear No. 5 and 2) if the refs can't tell Reggie Bush from some corn-fed 6-foot-6, 330-pound lineman, then the NFL has real problems. Alas, this seems yet another instance where the NFL will make what King calls a "potentially idiotic decision" just because they can.
• Jeffrey Maier, who as a 12-year-old helped the Yankees cheat to win the 1996 ALCS, is hitting more than .400 in his final season of college baseball -- and he's sporting a really bad mustache/goatee combination. Apparently he goes by Jeff now. That's nice. Around here he'll always be a little Yankee-loving, appearing-on-Regis spoiled little twerp named Jeffrey. Some things are forever.
• Baseball note of the day: Pat Borders, the MVP of the Blue Jays' 1992 World Series win, turns 43 next Sunday and he's still playing ball ... for the Dodgers' Class-A team in Vero Beach Fla. Twenty-five years of catching in professional baseball. They should send his knees to the Smithsonian. (Thanks again, Deadspin.)
• The Blue Jays come into today 2 1/2 games out of first place and 3 out of the wild card. Is it too soon to start scoreboard watching?

That's all for now. See you later tonight after the latest Most Important Game in Ottawa Senators history. You stay classy, Planet Earth.