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Crumpler revealed that he visited with former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in prison in Leavenworth, Kan., just before the start of training camp....

"I visited Mike right before camp, and I had a chance to sit down with him and talk with him about a lot of things dealing with life," Crumpler said. "I tried not talk too much about football, but just what's going to happen when he gets out eventually and just being there in support of him, as I've been. This is a situation where I could go and sit down with a guy and not have to worry about telling the world."

What can we say about Danica & Wade? She is fun, fiesty, and full of an adventurous spirit. He is calm, down-to-earth, and has a quiet strength about him. As a couple, they are simply beautiful together - in the laughter they share, the tenderness in their words, and the pure love with which they look at each other.

What have you done with your life? What inconsequential, forgotten-as-soon-as-you-are detail have birthed into this world? What difference have you made?

Some people are plagued by those questions. Some people never find the answers. The man pictured above is not one of those people.

Long after he is gone, long after the baseball stadiums rust and corrode and the human race insulates itself in outer space, waiting for a friendly little robot to clean up the mess, this man will be remembered. He was: Man Who Caught Baseball With Beer. No greater honor has ever been awarded.

Also: Notice how he didn't bring his glove? Stop bringing your gloves to the ballpark, morons.

(HT: Lion in Oil; TSB)

Take, for instance, the fastball. One purported benefit of amphetamines is helping wired-up relief pitchers come into games with all guns blazing, throwing their filthiest stuff, and then helping them get ready to do it again the next day. If the new drug policy were having the kind of widespread impact it's been thought to have had, we'd expect to see average velocities declining across the game. They aren't. The Fangraphs Web site has data on average pitch speed, licensed from Baseball Info Solutions, going back to 2005. In that year, 89 relievers throwing a minimum of 40 innings averaged 91 mph or better with their fastball. Sixteen of them topped 94; eight topped 95.

"There was a huge fight on July 18 at the Romo home. Jessica and Tony thought she was pregnant and happily announced it to the family," a source told the National Enquirer.

"The news resulted in dead silence. Then Tony's dad Ramiro said, 'You're not married. This is crazy!' Tony's mom Joan joined in, demanding, 'How can you do this to us?'"

Leadbetter ... on Wie's playing strategy that has included playing PGA Tour events: "It's a shock to me and to her agents that this is happening. I don't think the family is making the right choice. There's definitely more to lose than to gain.

"I've put too much time and effort into Michelle to be able to sit by and watch this happening without saying something. If she doesn't stick to doing what's sensible, we could see one of the greatest potential talents the game has ever known going to waste."