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`Hey, didn't you used to be in the shadow of a red-sweatered boor?' (Caught on the fly: fly@sportingnews.com).(sports observations)(Brief Article)

The Sporting News

| April 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

* Welcome to COTF, where Fly doesn't wash trucks, he splatters on them.

* There's no (dead) horsin' around when Pierre "Godfather" Lacroix starts talkin' at the trade deadline. Spies say the team's outlook is a mile high now that Darius Kasparaitis is in Denver by way of an offer Super Mario couldn't refuse. But the future for the 'Lanche isn't totally Sonny--the DeadWings still are the team to beat in the West, Metamucil-breath.

* Fly's Top 5, or "That's why NASCAR runs the races." 1. What's wrong with Wonderboy? 2. Sterling Marlin flat flies; 3. Tony Stewart stars in a wonderful ride; 4. Fix Or Repair Daily; 5. Really, what's wrong with Wonderboy?

* There hasn't been this much animosity in SoCal since Weird Al open-collared at the Coliseum. The Angels and Padres played plunkeroosky all spring, leading new discipline czar Bob Watson to get all FRobbie widdit. You 'n Fly know it's elementary, Watson, to talk to the players involved, but he was having none of that. Instead, players were left wonderin' how decisions were made. That Bud hasn't fallen far from the tree.

* M.J. is ackbay with the izardsWay. Will it attermay? Not unless His Airness really lets it Rip, and Hamilton needs to pour it in, too. ...

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