Idle thoughts

Wow. Some airliner headed from Malaysia to China dropped off the radar screens. Nobody knows what happened yet, but it sure doesn't look good.

Kind of like the Los Angeles Lakers. Sorry. Ahem.

A great-grandmother just won a super-duper lottery jackpot by playing the numbers she found in a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant?

Dang. Just a couple days ago I had this hankering for gai kow and a couple egg rolls, but a friend gave me some killer homemade mac and cheese instead, so I didn't make it to Wun Hung Lo's establishment of fine cuisine, else that could have been me. Even idler thought -- what the heck is sub gum anyway? They have periodontists inspecting the food in such places? I dunno.

Defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh of the Detroit Lions has yet to hire other agents after firing his former ones. It's been reported Suh might forgo an agent or two and even represent himself in upcoming contract negotiations. Cheaper that way. And somewhere in the front office of the Lions, somebody is drooling over that very possibility, hoping it happens. Suh might be a force on the field, but he'd be way, WAY, out of his league in a room full of team lawyers. Ndammy would become Ndummy, and that "stomp" thing would be the other way around. By the time they got done chewing him up and spitting him out, Suh might wind up signing a contract for little more than he could make cooking fries at Mickey D's. A brute? Yes. A brilliant mind? Please.

And former Detroit Tiger manager Jim Leyland made a quiet -- QUIET -- appearance at the Tigers spring training facility in Lakeland, Florida. Never fear, quoth the Marlboro Man, he has no intention of becoming involved with the players now that new manager Brad Ausmus has assumed the reins.

Well gee. That's nice. How magnanimous of him. So since when did former managers/head coaches in any sport, for any team, have a say-so in what happens after they've quit or been fired?

Thing is, Leyland seems to have taken some mysterious position in the Tigers' front office. But nobody knows exactly what it is. No official job title, no defined responsibilities, and certainly no salary numbers available. It's all a big secret. He just eases in and takes an elevator up to the offices where the other honchos hang out.

Definitely no word on who is representing Leyland in whatever he's up to these days, but somebody has to do it -- right?

Huh. Maybe he's hired Ndamukong Suh as his agent. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

It's Detroit, remember, the land of the long laughable Lions, who play across the street from the Tigers.

Anything's possible.....