• Erin Andrews kindly asks that you stop leering at her legs, and instead focus on the baseball game: "I think my overall reaction is that it’s really sad that in 2008 … I have people watching every single move I make,” Andrews said. “When there’s a big game between the Cubs and Brewers going on, it’s sad that that’s what their focus is on." [Randball]
• Manny Loves L.A.: “I like this city, the environment, the energy in the fans. I think that I’ll play here for the remainder of my career,” Ramirez said. [SOX & Dawgs]
• Blue Skies in Beijing?!: The Chinese have clearly gotten to Agent Stein. Pray for him: "Glad that, on my first full day here, the sky was about as blue as a sky can possibly be. The Beijing Sports Smog. Heh". [D.C. Sports Bog]
• Obama is Iverson; Iverson is Obama: Um, not quite, NY Mag writer guy: "It's a sad, sad commentary that in any part of this country the game of basketball can be used as a visual smear on someone's image. For every effort the NBA makes to fix the image, we're still pretty damn close to square one." [FanHouse]