MORNING LINE: Of welterweights and heavyweights

Welterweights in the ring, heavyweights at ringside.

It was impossible to miss Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a couple rows back sitting next to his longtime friend and Republican advisor Sig Rogich at Saturday night’s Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight at the MGM Grand Garden.

Wonder what they talked about. Perhaps they compared the beating De La Hoya took to the one Rogich’s main man John McCain absorbed in the November election. Maybe Reid waxed nostalgic about his days as a fighter, comparing himself to the lightning-quick Pacquiao, or at least noticed that the rhetorical welts he gave President Bush seemed a lot like those rising from De La Hoya’s face.

I'm guessing they both paid for their tickets. Reid was jabbed a couple years ago for accepting a Nevada Athletic Commission fight credential.