A Staggering Night of Nearly Nothingness
Barry Bonds failed to collect a hit in his bid to join the 700-homer club, but he did score a run to help the San Francisco Giants edge the host Milwaukee and keep grip on NL WC

The hobgoblins continue to circle the rotting corpse of Art Howe's managerial stint with the Mets as documented on a rolling basis by FIRE ART HOWE ALREADY!. Once the firing squad has finished their dirty work, I'm thinking of renaming the site Please Sell the Team Mr Wilpon!. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks the Mets Idiot Collective is ruining baseball for Queens.

Joel Sherman of the NYPost thinks it's time for the management to Ownup to Failure.

"Of course, Howe has to go, but that is merely a symptom of the problem. Jeff Wilpon refused any comment, and Fred Wilpon would not discuss Howe's status. But when asked if the mess that is the Mets ultimately fell to him, Fred responded, "It certainly would reflect on any CEO, and I'm the CEO." Then Wilpon disputed the Mets are a mess during much of a 20-minute interview, and sounded as if a small change like Bowa is in the offing, but not the substantial philosophical shifts that so clearly must be made."

Of course, part of the idiot savant genius that is the Mets Idiot Collective involved themselves in the trade of one of the Mets' brightest young pitching prospects for a man with a broken arm in Tampa Bay. Now, former untouchable/untradeable Met, Scott Kazmir continues to humiliate his former bosses by pitching in the Major Leagues when they said he wasnt' ready. Last night, Kazmir shut down Pedro Martinez and the Boston Red Sox just in case there were any doubts about his potential, whiffing nine over six shutout innings.

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Meanwhile back in Chicago, the Florida Marlins continue to entertain Chicago fans with their "home" victories at the White Sox's U.S. Cellular Field, allowing the poor bastids to see some winning baseball for a change. Jay Mariotti thinks Chicago finally has a home team we can root for.

"With no apologies whatsoever to the Cubs, I am rooting for the competition. That's how warmed I am by the saga of the Florida Marlins, Chicago's house guests, who've been burdened by a real-life ordeal yet are handling it with all the stress of frat guys on a panty raid. All you need to know is that the Fish have won 12 of 15 games while three hurricanes -- Charley, Frances and Ivan -- have paralyzed their state."

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Lastly, in a seemingly never-ending provocation against baseball fans, Sports Amnesia has been cheating by spending the first half of the night watching Chelsea poach PSG by a 3-0 margin on the road, hopefully sealing their advance into the next round of the Champions League.

Unfortunately, PSV Eindhoven were unsuccessful in their bid to oust Arseholenol away and will have to go back to Eindhoven to eind it all.

But all hope is not yet lost for the Dutch teams as Ajax face Juventus tonight at Ajax Arena.

Let's root for Liverpool over Monaco at home and that Man U fail miserably at Lyon. In fact, quite possibly the only side Sports Amnesia are rooting stronger against than Arseholenol would be the Man U side, so allyons Lyon!