Some news

Joe Girardi has been named to Terry Francona's coaching staff for the All-Star game to be held at Yankee Stadium. He will be joined by Detroit Tigers' manager Jim Leyland as well as the rest of the Red Sox's coaching staff.

Meanwhile, Jason Giambi passes around a thong to those who are in slumps. I hope he has nine of those, because the whole team should be wearing one.

This was in the paper and the blogs yesterday, but a student at NYU's graduation at Yankee Stadium tried to steal home. He was stopped by security guards, unfortunately..