Friday Blogdome: Both LA baseball managers now have a common thread … excellent

* @AndrewBucholtz Underreported aspect of this. RT @Bobby_BigWheel: Both LA teams will be managed by Springfield Nuclear Plant softball players next year … Don Mattingly and Mike Scioscia. [Twitter]
* Roger Staubach Thinks Today’s NFL Is ‘Kind of a Wussy Game’. “The statistics today are overwhelming,” Staubach said. “I saw Peyton Manning one time and he had a great comeback drive, but he had two 15-yard roughing-the-passer penalties. I’m thinking, ‘I don’t ever remember having one of those.’ It’s kind of a wussy game, really, in a way.” [Fanhouse]

* Calvin Johnson Lost The Ball Getting Up to Celebrate. “Yeah, yeah. I’m getting up. I took a look at it a second time myself. I catch the ball, two feet, hands, my knee, my bottom. As I put my left hand down to brace myself, I started to get up to run to the sideline. The rest is history.” [Sports Radio Interviews]
* Good Men Picks: Giants or Colts. Even without the point spread, picking winners consistently in the NFL can be maddening. Taking a new approach to the question, “who is the better team?”, last week we introduced a regular feature, in which we attempt to pick winners based on their relative virtue. [Good Men Project]
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