These two items are from NewMexiKen’s “first thing in the morning” daily read, Sideline Chatter:
Pay raises for everyone!
“The Yankees have a $200 million payroll,” exclaimed Twins outfielder Torii Hunter, “and we play for minimum wage.”
Responded Reggie Hayes of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel, pointing out that Hunter is getting by on $10.75 million this season: “Employees at Taco Bell were surprised and thrilled to learn the minimum wage has been raised to $5,168.27 per hour.”
Leave it to Tiger Woods to turn an errant shot at the Bridgestone Classic — a 9-iron that sailed over the green, bounced off the clubhouse roof and landed in a caterer’s cart of cream pies on the other side — into nothing worse than a bogey.
“In fact,” wrote Dan Daly of the Washington Times, “I’m surprised McDonald’s hasn’t gotten him to do one of those ‘nothing but net’-type commercials — a la Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.
“Picture Tiger standing over his tee ball and saying to Phil Mickelson: ‘Off the fan’s hand … around the tree … over the clubhouse roof … in the hole’ (possibly via a drainpipe).”
Tin Cup could make it.