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Backed-up sewers leave 51s in quite a stink

A stench emanating from field level at Cashman Field wasn’t the smell of the 51s falling out of first place on the home stand that ended Saturday night. It was the smell of sewers backing up near both dugouts.

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Getting Scrabble-d over the NCAA Tourney

Check the Hasbro line. Krzyzewski (Duke coach Mike) would beat Krystkowiak (Utah coach Larry) on the Scrabble board. Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski would beat them both, but only if you used his first name.

Wings, not hot dogs? Chestnut still rules

Champion eater Joey Chestnut had his own walk-up music at the Hooters World Wing Eating Contest in Las Vegas. He won, of course, by eating a record 182 chicken wings.

Did you hear the one about Reuss and Lasorda in a whirlpool?

On the cover of the new book Jerry Reuss finally got around to writing is a picture of him standing on the pitcher’s mound looking mostly irritated, and of Tommy Lasorda, looking mostly blurry, in the foreground. Blurry Lasorda, it can be assumed, is about to remove irritated Reuss from the ballgame.

Summer league rocks to own tune

Now that they have run the table again, in a different format with a playoff bracket and everything, it’s almost too easy to compare the NBA Summer League’s Golden State Warriors with author Roger Kahn’s “Boys of Summer.”

Twitter adds character now that Scully’s having his say

At 3:57 p.m., a couple of minutes before the second game of a doubleheader against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, the Voice of So Many Summers tweeted “Hi everybody and a pleasant Wednesday evening to you, wherever you may be.” -#VinScully.