Josh Q. Public:  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered.  The point is to discover them.  -Galileo

Public Knowledge:

1.  Can we say it now?  Still too soon?  I think not.  The New Orleans Hornets are for real.  Chris Paul is for real.  The Hornets smashed the Spurs once again.  It’s only the second time that a defending World Champeen has ever been smashed in the first two games of a postseason series by at least eighteen points.  Only the second time!  Ever.  CP3 had thirty points.  CP3 had twelve dimes.  He’s the first player in thirteen years to score at least thirty points and notch ten-or-more dimes in a postseason game against San Antonio.  The last player to do that was my boy.  My boy, Sam I Am.  You do not like them so you say.  Try them! Try them!  And you may.  Try them and you may, I say.  I say the Spurs are in trouble.  Big trouble.  Big trouble in Little China.  This is the fifteenth time that San Antonio has lost the first two games of a postseason series.  Eleven in the NBA and four in the ABA.  The Spurs never rebounded to win any of those fourteen previous series.  Never. 

2.  How ’bout them Red Sox?  Four in a row.  How ’bout that Dice-K?  Matsuzaka, Matsuzaka, Matsuzaka!  The new king of old Fenway Pahka.  Dice-K may have only pitched five innings.  Dice-K may have walked eight batters.  But Dice-K got the W.  Just win baby.  The last pitcher prior to Matsuzaka to earn a win despite walking at least eight batters in an outing of no more than five innings was the immortal William VanLandingham of the San Francisco baseball Giants back in 1997.  Still undefeated, I think it’s safe to say Dice-K has adjusted to the Bigs.  He’s delightful, he’s delicious, he’s delectable, he’s delirious, he’s de limit, he’s deluxe, he’s de-lovely, he’s D-Nice although he hates to admit it, he’s taking out you suckers and you don’t know how he did it.

3.  Who says HGH doesn’t do anything?  Rick Ankiel’s ninth-inning ground out scored Phat Albert Winnie the Pujols from second base to give the Cardinals a 6-5 win over the Rockies last night.  It was Ankiel’s seventh game-winning RBI this season.  It is the most for any player in the National League.

4.  Pitching, pitching and more pitching.  That’s how the Blue Jays roll.  The Jays blanked the Go-Go White Sox 1-0  last night.  Toronto has now allowed only twelve runs over its last nine games.  That ties the fewest runs allowed by any major-league team over a nine-game span since 2003.  That matches the fewest runs surrendered over any nine-game span in Blue Jays history.  Roy Halladay.   A.J. Burnett.   Dustin McGowan.  Shaun Marcum.  Jesse Litsch.  The fearsome fivesome.  These starters have gone at least seven innings in seven of the last eight games.  Yikes!  Marcum’s 6 2/3 innings of two-hit baseball against Chicago last Friday being the exception.  None of these starters have allowed more than two earned runs in any game.  Yikes again.  Combined, Toronto’s starters have given up just eight earned runs in their last sixty-six innings.  Combined, Toronto’s starters have given up just a ratio of 0.724 WHIP.  Yikes a third time.   That’s how the Blue Jays roll.

5.  Making me feel young again.  Jamie Moyer had two hits last night.  Since 1900, only three other pitchers age 45-or-older had two or more hits in one game: Jack Quinn, Satchel Paige and that knuckleballing fool Charlie Hough.

6.  Remember your first ballgame?  This kid won’t:

7.  This is not good.  Not if you’re a Colts’ fan.  Not if you’re a six-five, 230-pound quarterback with a laser rocket arm.  Not good at all.  Six of the bullet casings found after an April 29 shooting near Marvin Harrison’s car wash and garage came from a gun that belongs to the Colts wide receiver.  This thing will only get worse.

8.  The other Santana.  Ervin Santana.  Last night, Ervin struck out nine.  Last night, Ervin walked none.  Last night, Ervin improved his record to 6-0.  Goodness gracious. 

9.  So that Connecticut kid finally took off his Brett Favre jersey after four years.  Good for him.  Does that mean I can take off my Denny Doyle boxers now? 

10.  Yankees still suck.  Giambi Juice batting .150.  2-for-27 (.074) with runners in scoring position.  Ha ha ha!

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!