Short version because of the Reds' early game...

Yeah, I dropped the ball. I'm bummed about it, but what you gonna do? You just have to forget it and move on and be ready for the next time you get that opportunity. It's too bad that was my first career opportunity.

Two years ago I was at a Braves game and one of the guys I was with had the ball bounce off his hands. I didn't understand, but now I do. Greg, I feel your pain.

* SI.com's John Heyman sees Adam Dunn in pinstripes.

* The Nationals didn't get much for Jon Rauch, that's not a good sign considering the Reds most tradeable players are reliever Jeremy Affeldt and David Weathers.

* Jerry Hairston Jr. and Elvin from the Cosby Shown? You decide. Also in our Reds look-alikes, readers have given us Homer Bailey=Christian Bale and Javier Valentin=Turtle from Entourage. Ken Griffey Jr. has always referred to Edwin Encarnacion as "baby Tyson" -- and the Reds third baseman does look like a young Mike Tyson. Gary Majewski could have a winter job as Xavier's mascot (not the blob, the other one).

* An interesting look at third-base coaches.

* Bud ain't happy with the Cubs.

* A list of the Top 10 college mascots. I like having Uga at No. 1, but no Mike the Tiger?

* A list of Ohio State excuses.

* The Gainesville Sun looks at the SEC's glamour coaches.

* This post from Every Day Should Be Saturday is so wrong (and shouldn't be read by anyone who doesn't grasp satire), but good. Really, how Kirk Ferentz is still employed is crazy to me. Stay classy Iowa.

* I'm a man! I'm 40! I do have to call a massive BS on this from our favorite 40-year old college football coach. He says, "I've had only one incident and it wasn't necessarily attacking a media member. If so, I would have said a name. I wasn't trying to embarrass somebody."

You don't have to name names when you hold up the paper and point toward the column. Saying you didn't say a name when you pointed toward the person's picture is more or less the same as saying their name.

(As for the column, I think both columnist and coach can share blame of that whole debacle.)

* Speaking of college football caoches making stupid stances with the media -- George O'Leary isn't talking to the Orlando Sentinel because of "inaccuracies" but won't name what's inaccuracte so the paper can correct it. And he won't talk to the Sentinel until there's a correction. Sound familiar? The Skipper's even older than 40. But it wouldn't be the first time he misled people.

* My friend and mentor Mark Schlabach ranks the Big East's quarterbacks and has UC's Dustin Grutza No. 8 of eight.

* A new Gutter Twins track.

* Banksy has been unmasked.