As you might have read elsewhere yesterday, there was a rather amusing exchange between members of the New York and Boston media. During a media baseball game, there was nearly a bench-clearing brawl. Yes, we’re serious. Marthaler was all over it on TNABACG, and he’s demanding that we not only write something about it, but also send out a formal challenge to the conglomerated Wisconsin media and put them on notice that Minneapolis-St. Paul won’t back down from any challenges. Sorry, Jon, but we just can’t do that in good faith. You see, we’ve played in many media games over the years. Most of them were back in the day when we used to work at the U of M’s paper, The Minnesota Daily. We would get together on many Saturdays for touch football with various members of the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press. Those were good times. They were also times that featured a higher injury rate than the NFL and bare-knuckle boxing combined. While many writers are fairly coordinated, getting onto the actual playing field usually serves one purpose: to remind us why we write about sports for a living instead of playing them. Or, if the need for a vicarious thrill arises, we can always play video games. Which brings us to the final, salient point. Baseball is the game (it will either be RBI or Baseball Stars). Chatterbox in St. Paul is the place. 7 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) is the time. We moved it up an hour because they have a karaoke contest that night and they expect it to be fairly busy, but we should have use of the sweet couch set-up once again. We’ll probably make up a ridiculous tournament format rules as we go along. And it will be good times. So come on out.

Quickly: The Angels lit up Boof last night. It hasn’t been a particularly attractive road trip so far, and the Twins are counting on Scott Baker + Kevin Slowey to pull them out of this mini-spin. … Billy Donovan might not be able to coach in the NBA for the next five years if he pulls out of his Magic deal. That would mean he would never get to coach Joakim Noah again. … Tank Johnson will have plenty of time to eat beef sticks. He’s suspended for eight games. Sweet Lou, meanwhile, got a four-game break. … The Ducks are one game away, which means Jon is one step closer to hitting the pre-order button for the 2007 Stanley Cup finals DVD. He loves Anaheim so much it hurts. Doesn’t everyone? … And, of course, Mystery Link! Um, what is this?

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