It’s time to clean out the link folder, starting with Matt Leinart’s offseason escapades — primarily a blog topic instead of a mainstream media topic and a key piece of evidence in the Bissinger vs. Leitch trial — showing up recently as a question on Jeopardy!

*Paul W. dug deep into the Boston Globe to pull out this nugget, which suggests Game 7 of the Celtics/Hawks series might have been decided as much by Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce as it was by Johnny Walker and Jose Cuervo:

Word is, Boston entertainment prince Patrick Lyons might have played a role in the Celtics’ blowout Game 7 win over the Hawks a week ago that vaulted them to the second round. The Hawks stayed at the Liberty Hotel May 3 in Cambridge before playing the Celtics. A league source said Lyons, who operates the Alibi Lounge in the hotel, instructed his bar staff to give anyone affiliated with the Hawks a double shot in any alcoholic beverage they ordered.

*A very successful hedge fund that focuses on “adult industry investments.” Yep, that’s exactly what it means. It could only come from fasolamatt.

*Mrs. RandBall is back with a vengeance, and you do not want to miss getting caught in the tangential cross-hairs. After more than four months of dormancy, she racked up three posts in one day, including this interesting take on sports equipment costs:

Should we really be encouraging players to shift their focus to equipment advancements like a neighbor kid eying the spoiled kid’s toys? It’s about the game … and in the first place, it should be fair.

*Shame on us for forgetting about Christian Laettner’s induction into the Polish-American Hall of Fame. That’s Polish as in Poland. We think. So yeah, we forgot Poland. Hope it doesn’t cost us four years.

*Reader MR enjoys MPR. He passes along this link to “Songs of the Legislative Session,” including Billy Idol’s “Dancin’ With Myself,” going out to the Minnesota Vikings.

*The Matt Walsh meeting with Roger Goodell is underway, and according to Reiss’s Pieces there are TV screens set up to show reporters footage of the tapes Walsh handed over.

*Fasola-link! Name that TV theme song. Yeah, and while you were enjoying the Twins waxing the Red Sox for the third time in four games, Mr. Matt was listening to the Cleveland vs. Toronto game (game 2 of a doubleheader) on the radio. His squad turned an unassisted triple play; it wasn’t enough for a victory or to impress his little one.

Yesterday, C-Dog (he’s four) and I were listening to the Cleveland feed of the second game of the Cleveland-Toronto doubleheader while C-Dog had a bedtime snack. When Cabrera turned the triple play, Tom Hamilton did not call it “unassisted” (the highlight that’s been playing on ESPN Radio all morning), and didn’t acknowledge it as such until after the commercial break (as it was, they missed three pitches of the next inning). It’s the first time I’ve heard an unassisted triple play (fifteen of them since 1900, but four in the last ten years), and I was pretty excited. “C-Dog, that was an unassisted triple play, the rarest play in baseball. My team (that’s what we call the Indians; the Twins are ‘your team’) hasn’t done that in the regular season in 99 years!” (Yes, I knew that. Yes, it’s an indication of how much worthless information I retain. No, I usually don’t remember my spouse’s birthday). C-Dog was not impressed, and asked for more ice cream.

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