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The Part of Baseball That Makes Me Cringe

Only Fox Sports (whose opening logo isn't a sports montage at all but an armed services tribute) would have the chutzpah to string together Flag Day (and by the way, this followed by this is not a coincidence) and the celebration of Roger Clemens' 300th career win and 4000th career strikeout (which I still thought was cool however orchestrated; I mean, the li'l kids wid da baggies, how could you not mandatorily wuv it?) under the headline "And the Rocket's Red Glare." Oh, and throw in Father's Day for good measure, because they won't be on the air tomorrow with their Game of the Week.

Less cringeworthy but still worthy of a mention is the ongoing televised elimination rounds of the NCAA (Men's) College World Series. I put "Men's" in quotations not only because it actually is delineated on the NCAA's website but because they already had the Women's one (for softball), not that you'd be able to find it on TV (see my entry of May 27).