(posted by OMDQ)

It's always a sad day when Chien-Ming Wang pitches and the best headline anyone can come up with is, "Beckett wins 19th as BoSox pound Yankees". If only the Boston.com headline writers had a sense of humor.

Or maybe they do. Consider this beauty about the New England Patriots defensive coordinator in charge of preparing a game plan to contain LaDainian Tomlinson and the rest of the San Diego Chargers offense:

Pees ready for test

Not the greatest use of juvenile humor ever, but at least they appear to be trying on this one. (Perfection? It woudn't quite work because of the positions of all involved, but it couldn't possibly get better than "Merriman ready for Pees test".) The guy who wrote the Beckett headline could learn a thing or two.

Photo: Ultimate Yankees

(posted by OMDQ)

(Note: I think this is my favorite post ever.)

One game story, three outstanding usages of the name "Wang":

As it first appeared in my Google Reader:

"Red-hot Wang propels Yankees past Tigers"

Banner description on the top of the game story page in Internet Explorer:

"Yanks lean on red-hot Wang in win over Tigers"

And the sub-headline of the SI.com game recap:

"Weary Yankees lean on Wang in 7-2 win over Tigers"

It's enough to make a Red Sox fan not care that the Yankees won. Although..."Cocky Wang deflated after being slapped around by Tigers" would have been the pinnacle of awesomeness. In fact, I propose we set up a fund to reward the first mainstream media employee who manages to work "cocky" and "Wang" into the same headline. Come on now - somebody up there has to be up to the task.

And you weren't going to get any pictures tonight because I'm using my brother's laptop and don't want to save anything to his hard drive, but this picture of my man Chien-Ming was too good to pass up:

Why, oh why, couldn't the caption referred to it as his "5-and-oh face"? (If you don't get that, watch this.)

Chien-Ming Wang should pitch every single day.

Photo: SI.com (also the link for the game story)