Either I'm living right or the gods of retribution haven't noticed me yet, but Blobbable stuff is falling like manna from heaven lately ("manna," in my case, loosely translating as "cheeseburgers"). Strangeness abounds ...

* Can anyone tell me why everyone's got their Jockeys in a twist about Jets coach Rex Ryan and his cussin' posse on HBO's "Hard Knocks"? I mean, I get why Tony Dungy's upset about it, and I get that all football coaches (Dungy being the prime example) don't indulge in carpet f-bombing. But, come on. They're pro football coaches. And Ryan's the son of Buddy. You were expecting Jane Austen?

* The Washington Nationals have canned color commentator Rob Dibble because he essentially called Stephen Strasburg a wimp on his radio show -- before it became clear that Strasburg was, in fact, seriously injured. This was classic Dibble. It was, I suspect, exactly the sort of thing that made him appealing to the Nats to begin with. But now you fire him for, essentially, being who you knew he was?

Again: You were expecting Jane Austen?

* So Manny Ramirez, who quit on the Red Sox, quits on the Dodgers, who then, disgusted and for some reason surprised, dump him on the White Sox. After which Manny proceeds, with a bizarreness that has become entirely predictable, to conduct his first news conference in Chicago entirely in Spanish.

Classic weirdo Manny-ness. Can't wait for his next news conference, which sources say he'll conduct entirely in Klingon.

That is all.