Linked And Loaded – 6/17

The Indians are still in the crappy divisional AL Central race.  Their bullpen couldn’t get 6 outs in most minor league games without giving up a couple of runs, but the offense is carrying the weight to keep Eric Wedge floating along.  Here are other great stories:

• PSAMP has video footage of Mario Lemieux being made a knight in Quebec, Canada.
• Gunaxin takes a look at the five best fictional golf caddies of all-time.  Bagger Vance and Danny Noonan did make the cut…
• Rip City Project thinks that maybe Brandon Wright could be the “banger” that Portland needs to get over the top.
• Steady Burn recalls his early 90′s trip to Fenway during the Clemens era and what he could remember, good read here!
• Zoner Sports is in Chicago, home of Sammy Sosa.  Zoner reports that even the Chicago faithful do not think Sosa belongs in the Hall of Fame.
• NESW Sports has a good video of Kenny Mayne and Scoop Jackson from a recent episode of Mayne Street.
• Moondog Sports poses the question… Who is leaking the names of the 104 baseball players who failed their drug tests in 2003?
• Josh Q. Public pens a masterpiece on who are the greatest non-users of steroids in the steroid era of baseball.  Check the list, you may not agree with all of the choices, good read here.
• Hugging Harold Reynolds pays tribute to OJ Simpson going nuts 15 years ago.  HHR also has the famous call for the Howard Stern show which Peter Jennings had to bear.
• Intentional Foul looks inside the very steep concession prices at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium.
• My Sports Rumors submitted “Wang’s wife delivers, can he ?”
• Major League Jerk talks of his recent trip to Wrigley Field.