Also, big thanks to Mr. Packer for agreeing to sport some Tirico Suave flair.

Goddamnit Yardbarker. You're big time now. I was really looking forward to using the 'Philadelphia Soul' tag and lo and behold, nothing.

Jason Giambi's proposition speech to the American Mustache Institute looks vaguely familiar.

Quickly following up on their sudden publicity following yesterday's story involving the accidental name switch of sprinter Tyson Gay, Christian news site OneNewsNow.com has decided to take their actions one step further and re-issue older sports trading cards, edited as they see fit.

Last February, the precocious Mariners franchise went down to a Baltimore area Gamestop and laid down some hard earned prospects to acquire the latest installment of a video game franchise that was seemingly ready to live up to it's hype. It didn't and now they should trade him in before he carries no value whatsoever.

A little rant about baseball v. football to remember the man by.

With Jerry Manuel giving out this absolutely fantastic quote today, what's the over/under on blogs that post something strikingly similar to this poster below? I'm going to go with 100 and I think I'm being conservative.

With the news that his contract has been bought out by the Toronto Raptors, I'd like to formally extend an invitation to former Raptors big man Jorge Garbajosa to join the other side project that's near and dear to my heart, my Dexy's Midnight Runners tribute band, Johnny Ray & The Toora Loo-Rye-Ayes.

Cinnamon Wang hurts himself on a non-contact trip around the bases and now Hank comes out and practically demands the National League change their rules to prevent American League pitchers from getting hurt. Why stop there Hank? Why not just amend every rule as you see fit? Here I've thrown together some goodies for you to bring up to Bud Selig that should help the Yankees this season.

June 16, 2008. What an absolutely glorious day. Bill Bavasi is no longer the general manager of the Seattle Mariners. Clearly I'm excited. As a favor to who ever succeeds Bavasi full time, I'll compile a list of things not to do if you'd like to retain the title of Mariners GM.

Kobe's awesome. He's the best player in the world right now. He's probably even be the best basketball player we've seen since Michael Jordan. But simply put, he's not Michael Jordan. In fact, he's not even close, nor will he ever be. Let me illustrate this for you in list form.

Note to all you aspiring newscasters out there: sometimes refusing to pause can drastically change the context and tone of your news report.

From Newsday via the Posterboy comes perhaps the greatest nugget of news any of us here at Tirico Suave have heard in our short existence: come September, Hank Steinbrenner will be penning HIS OWN COLUMN for the Sporting News. I don't what he's going to write about, but I have the absolute utmost faith that whatever he puts together will be the greatest combination of words ever assembled on a sheet of paper.

Do videos of skateboarders going crotch first into telephone wires interest you? Then this is 46 seconds of heavenly bliss.

(via With Leather.)