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• Let me root, root, root for the home team.  If they don’t win it’s a shame.  Oh, they’ve been winning all right.  Winning in these NBA playoffs.  Home teams in these NBA playoffs are 44-15.  That’s a .746 winning percentage.  Should that form hold through the rest of the playoffs, it would be the first year in which home teams had such a high winning percentage since 1990.  My goodness!  See.  It’s not just my Celtics.  It’s everybody.  But my Celtics haven’t won on the road yet.  Yet.  Tonight’s the night folks.  Tonight’s the night.  My Celtics went a league-best 31-10 in away games during the regular season.  Trailer for sale or rent.  King of the road.  It’s good to be the King.  The Celtics will be Kings again.  Expect a big night from the Celtics defense once again tonight.  Expect a Celtics road victory once again tonight.
• Quick.  Who has the best record in all of baseball?  If you said the Florida Marlins, get yourself a lollipop.  Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?  It doesn’t hurt that they’ve playing the Nats.  The lowly Nats.  The godawful Nats.  The Marlins are 6-0 at Nationals Park.  6-0 after sweeping a pair of three-game series in Washington this season.  It’s the first time that Florida has won its first six games at any ballpark.  Yes, the Marlins are hot.  Hot to trot.  So is Dan Uggla.  Uggla hit two bombs yesterday.  Uggla hit a grand slam home run and drove in five runs Saturday.  Uggla had five hits, three home runs and seven RBIs as the Marlins swept the Nats this weekend to notch their seventh straight win.  Yowza!  Mets?  Phillies?  Braves?  Nope, it’s the Florida Marlins.  Let’s just hope they wait until after the season to break up the team. 
• We knew they were gonna be good.  We knew they had good young talent.  Who knew it would happen this fast?  Well, fast is a relative term, I guess.  The Tampa Bay Devil Rays extended their winning streak to four games on Sunday to improve their season mark to 21-16.  Holy Cow!  The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are now five games over .500.  Five games over .500 for the first time in franchise history.  Just so you know.  Not that you care.  But this is the longest it’s taken any of the major league’s fourteen expansion franchises to reach that level for the first time.  The Devil Rays swept the mighty mighty Red Sox earlier in the season.  The Devil Rays just swept the mighty mighty Angels.  Carl Crawford:  “We feel like we’re going to win every game right now.”  That’s good news.  Good news for Devil Rays fans.  Bad news for Yankees fans.  Ha ha ha!
• All Uggla.  All the time.  As previously noted, Dan Uggla hit two bombs as the Marlins completed a series sweep at Washington.  That makes eleven bombs in all.  Eleven bombs through Florida’s first thirty-seven games.  Earlier this year, the best player in baseball, Chase Utley, hit his eleventh bomb in the Phillies‘ twenty-eighth game.  Just so you know.  Not that you care.  In National League history, only three other second basemen hit eleven or more homers within their team’s first thirty-seven games of a season.  Wanna know who they are?  Huh?  Do ya?  Sure you do.  Rogers Hornsby.  Twice.  Jeff Kent and Jay Bell.  So there you have it. 
• What?  You thought Ryan Braun was having an off year?  You thought the Hebrew Hammer was all washed up?  You thought I said are you all right Spider?  Think again.  Braun hit a pair of bombs yesterday.  The fortieth and forty-first bombs of Braun’s brief career.  Just so you know.  Not that you care.  But that’s the quickest any player in major-league history surpassed the forty-HR mark.  Ever.  Here comes Quick Draw McGraw.  The high-falutin’est, fastest shooin’est, cowboy you ever saw. 
• Quality parenting.  A kid in a Mark Chmura jersey?  Really?  I’m a BC guy.  But still.  What’s next?  Rae Caruth?  Thanks to Zoner Sports for the pic.  Hilarious.

• Oh, how the mighty have fallen.  I never saw this one coming.  Well, yes I did.  So did everybody.  It’s a miracle he made it this long.  The Brewers yanked Eric Gagne from the closer’s role on Sunday.  From 1999-2006 with the Dodgers, Gagne was lights out.  Literally.  Eric Gagne was the most dominant closer in baseball.  The past two seasons with Texas, Boston and now Milwaukee…Not so much.   Francisco Cordero?  Who needs him?
• A brief history of Mets batting stances:

• Just when I was starting to think I was a genius.  This happens.  Rafael Furcal.  I drafted him in two leagues.  Check out the big brain on Brett! You’re a smart motherf*cker. That’s right.  The metric system.  Not looking so smart now.  Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal, who has been sidelined five straight games with lower back pain, does not know when he will be able to return to the field.  Is Christian Guzman still available?
• Yankees still suck.  Boomer?  Really?  Boomer?  Ha ha ha!!!

Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!

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