Sports Notes, 8/5/07

-- Congratulations, Barry. Go, A-Rod.

-- You can credit Ryan Theriot for Saturday’s win over the Mets. With two outs and runners on the corners in the third inning, Theriot beat out a slow grounder to drive in the first run of the game and keep the inning alive. All in all, six runs scored – more than they would need and all that they would get.

-- Or you can credit the umpire, as replays showed the throw just barely beat Theriot.

-- In a line that pretty much sums up how random that inning was, Jacque Jones was two-for-two with an RBI and a baserunning gaffe in the third inning alone.

-- Of course, when it comes to crazy innings, nothing beats Any-Eight-Runs-You-Can-Score-I-Can-Score-Better affair between the White Sox and the Yankees on Wednesday. When you go up by that much and then piss it all away, it must feel like you have to go out and re-win a game that you had won already.

-- Can you believe Jose Contreras, two years off his 15-win season, is currently 5-14? That with two more losses he will have lost as many games in 2007 as he did in 2005 and 2006 combined? Of course, after the eight-home-run onslaught on Tuesday, I can hardly believe he’s won five games.

-- Here’s another odd stat: Moises Alou hit as many home runs on Saturday as he did the entire rest of the season combined. And this brings up an ethical quandry for bleacher buttholes: Do you throw back a home run off the bat of someone who meant so much to Cubs Nation?

-- Now, the bat itself you obviously throw back; the thing’s covered in pee. But the ball? I myself might keep that one.

-- Chicago native Donovan McNabb says that at his current level of 75 percent, he’s better than most NFL quarterbacks at 100 percent. Which leads us to reflect on Rex: Would you rather have 75 percent of McNabb or 100 percent of Grossman? It’s a noodle-scratcher, but in the end I give a slight edge to the incumbent. Let’s hear what the readers have to say on that one!