Five quick links to start your day ... 

1. Like yours truly, this blogger passed on a chance to truck up to Milwaukee for Carlos Zambrano's no-hitter and really feels like seeing a no. So, from now on, both mine and his response to all future inquiries on spur-of-the-moment road trips to Beer City will not be, "Are you kidding? The Bears are playing at noon and you'd need a speedboat to get up the Edens Expressway with all this rain," but rather "Why certainly, because I think the Bears are just going to kick everyone in the crotch after last week's win over Indy and Enterprise just started to rent Ski-Doos. What time do we leave?" [Rumors & Rants]

2. Why Ned Colletti should be named Time's Person of the Millennium. I say, why stop there? [Fire Joe Morgan]

3. The Dodgers' odds of making the playoffs are up to 98 percent. Their magic number is down to 10. Is it possible that after all the talk of an all-Chicago World Series, we'll be spending a week in October traveling up and down the L.A. freeways? [Sons of Steve Garvey] 

4. I wish I had $100,000 to buy the Mets dugout from Shea Stadium. Not to mention a back yard big enough to install it in. And a chew habit to decorate the floor of it with. [The Last Days of Shea]

5. Booing Carl Pavano as he leaves the mound at the Stadium because of injury? You stay classy, Yankee fans. [Walkoff Walk]