Rays fans are having fun with their young exciting team. Plus, everyone loves the cowbell. No?

NY Post's sports columnist Kevin Kernan talks about the Mets and the Yankees on ESPN. Kernan covers Jose Reyes' 'tantrum' and compares him to Paul O'Neill.

With the possible break-up of WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog the guys over at Mike and the Mad Blog have compiled a 'Bucket List' for our favorite sports talk know it all's.

Here are a few of my favorites:

* Ask Michael Strahan to cohost a show

* Let Chris predict the ratings

* Go a week without Jon Heyman

* Invite Phil Mushnick into the studio for some tea

Tigers Pitcher Todd Jones entertains the crowd with his Magglio Ordonez impersonation during tonight's rain delay.

Mets beat Seattle 8-2....

George Carlin schmoozing with Ralph Kiner during a rain delay

Manuel Moonlighting For Doritos

There was some fight in the Mets last night but not the kind that shows on the scoreboard. It was the kind of feistiness Mets fans had been yearning for from Willie Randolph but instead it came from the new man at the helm Jerry Manuel.

Pic says it all...

Seattle 11

Mets 0

Fox Sports held a news conference today to introduce Michael Strahan as their newest addition to their NFL pre-game show. Newsday's Neil Best was in attendance and writes that Strahan said the Giants should rid themselves of Jeremy Shockey:

Today the NY Post misrepresented Jerry Manual's 'fertilizer' comment and it's great to see them taken to task by Hot Foot's own Anthony De Rosa, Mets Blog's reader's and now on national cable TV by Countdown's Keith Olbermann.

Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch! (Video)

The duo that many love to hate may be calling it quits after almost 20 successful years together in sports talk radio. Neil Best of Newsday is reporting that 'industry sources' say WFAN's Mike Francesa and Chris Russo won't make it to see their 19th anniversary, Sept 5. and that they may have already done their last show together.

According to the Wall Street Journal, ESPN and The NFL Network are currently in talks regarding a partnership.

I told him you know next time you do that i'm gonna get my blade out and cut him. Right out there on the field. I say hey, I'm a gangsta now, you wanna get gangsta on me, I'm gonna have to get you now, you do that again, I'm gonna get you, right out there on the field. " - Mets Manager Jerry Manuel ...