ROB'S QUICK HITS
	Did you see that?
	May 9 Even when the sacrifice bunt "works," how often does it really work? In tonight's Mariners-Jays game, Ruben Sierra led off the bottom of the seventh with a double. The score was 3-3, so Lou Piniella told Bret Boone to bunt, and he did. The next batter was John Olerud, who doubled to plate Sierra with the lead run. Of course, Olerud's double would have scored Sierra from second base anyway. More to the point, you don't play for one run in the seventh inning of a baseball game in 2002, even in Safeco Field. That one run was all the M's scored, but the Jays scored four runs in the eighth inning to take a 7-4 lead. The M's wound up winning, of course, but it might have been a bit easier if they hadn't given away a valuable out for no apparent reason.
	May 9 Baseball broadcasters say stupid things all the time. It's not their fault, really. It's just a hazard of the trade; you say enough things, and some of them aren't going to make any sense, I don't care who you are. What's more, Cubs broadcaster Joe Carter is generally articulate and occasionally insightful. Today, however, he said the most ridiculous thing that any human being has ever said in the broadcast booth. Dawn Wells was in the booth promoting "The Vagina Monologues," in which she's appearing in Chicago. Wells, of course, is known for one thing and for one thing only: she played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. And so Carter, ever the gracious host, gushed that Gilligan's Island "changed the country." Yes, even more than Mr. Ed and The Brady Bunch.
	Talkin' baseball
	Rob's chat wrap: Friday, May 3 Rob on the radio: ESPN Radio, Monday at 9:26 p.m. PT (that's 12:26 a.m. on the East Coast)

Four down, four problems
The Rockies, Tigers, Royals and Brewers have all canned managers. Rob argues that while there is hope in Colorado and Detroit, the Royals and Brewers are in a heap of trouble. Complete column

From the Archives
August 28, 2000: When you think of a "baseball museum," you probably think of The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. Now, my favorite thing in Cooperstown is the artifacts: the old gloves, the old baseballs, the old watches presented to old ballplayers for meritorious achievement ... you know what I mean.

Well, there's very little of this in the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, presumably because nobody saved anything. Complete column

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