STUFF FOR YOUR HUMPDAY AFTERNOON

Don't tell anyone you don't own Blonde on Blonde ... It's gonna be okay.

• Thanks to Deadspin, I discovered another Raptors blog, Manute's Webb. Who knew the fortunes of Samuel L. Jackson and the Raptors were so closely correlated?
  
  That doesn't mean you should start walking up to the corporate types in the lower bowl at ACC and start asking how their "mother-------" wine coolers taste. That will get you strange looks and a night in the clink at 52 Division.
  
  Oh, and Manute's also has some apparent harsh truths about student life in Waterloo, Ont.
• We've already had one Chappelle's Show reference, so that segues right into Fire Joe Morgan pointing out that baseball has created a Look Again Player of the Year Award for "the role players who sacrifice for their team in often unrecognized effort." Guess what "role player" might be code for? All but two of the 30 nominees are white. As one commenter put it, "This list is NHL-level white, not just MLB-level white." (Via Deadspin.)
  
  Reed Johnson is the Blue Jays nominee and there's real temptation here to go over and vote for him, but that would just legitimize the award, wouldn't it? Besides, how is the White Sox's Joe Crede a "role player" when he played every day and hit 30 homers while contributing Gold Glove-worthy defence at third base?
• Richard Griffin's Toronto Star column points out ex-Jay Chris Carpenter (see morning post) will make about $5 million less next season than the Jays are due to pay the oft-injured A.J. Burnett.
  
  Griffin, being Griffin, chose to give one of his disserations on defensive fundamentals and focus on the Joel Zumaya throwing error. That's cool (we love him for this), but it should have rated a mention that Zumaya was feeling a little heat since the Cardinals, with their superior plate discipline, had drawn two walks to start the inning. Zumaya's ill-considered throw to third base was just the obvious mistake.
• By the way, funny sketch from the lost Chappelle's Show episodes.
• Yes, there is going to be a live blog from tonight's World Series Game 4 between the Tigers and Cardinals. (Provided it's not a rainout, of course.)

That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.