What you missed this week when you were busy having brunch with your aunt

• Rich Seubert, starting Left Guard for the World Champion New York Giants, who three short years ago didn't know if he'd ever play football again, signed a 3-year extension that will keep him in blue until 2012.
• With much trepidation, we painfully revisited the Giants' 2002 debacle in San Francisco.
• Davidson's Stephen Curry might have caught the eye of Vogue coverboy Lebron James, but 9 of 25 shooting (including 4-16 from three-point range) wasn't enough to keep Kansas out of the Final Four.
• Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci picks the Detroit Tigers over the Chicago Cubs in the 2008 World Series. Buster Olney of ESPN the Magazine picks the Cleveland Indians over those same Cubs. Considering how the Cubbies haven't won the National League pennant since the year we dropped the bomb on Japan, I wonder if maybe these predictions are just wishful thinking.
  
• Jose Canseco's new piece-of-shit book hits shelves on Monday, but most of us already read the juicy parts online last week.
• We broke down the 2008 Mets. The Bluenatic predicts 95 wins and a division title, but concedes that they need a big bouceback season from Carlos Delgado, a healthy (and effective) Duaner Sanchez and big-time performances from the new dynamic duo at the top of their rotation.
• We gave out our first "Have a Nice Life, Douchebag Award" to Dale Petroskey, former President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His resignation comes just in time for the 20th anniversary of the release of Bull Durham.
  
• President Bush threw out the first pitch in the Nationals/Braves game Sunday night, but not to Nats' starting catcher Paul LoDuca. Think this has something to do with LoDuca being mentioned 37 times in the Mitchell Report?
• Monday is Opening Day and Barry Bonds is still unemployed. Some people seem pleased. And the San Francisco Giants have decided to pretend like he wasn't the face of the franchise for the past 15 years.
• And in our "Crazy Bizarre Sports News Story Of The Week", former New York Met infielder Kaz Matsui, previously best known for sucking at baseball, will miss the opener of the Houston Astros' season with an injury to his anus. Public humiliation of the newest Asstro coming soon to a ballpark near you.

Congratulations to Alex Kopelman of the Bronx, who won our "Name the New Giants/Jets Stadium Contest" by emailing his entry “The Wellington Mara Memorial House of Awesome, Except When the Jets Play. When the Jets play just call the place Suck Field.” For this fine submission Mr. Kopelman has won himself a free copy of Mets by the Numbers, which noted blogger Mets Guy in Michigan this week called “perhaps the best book ever written.”

Don't forget to email your nominees for the next "Have a Nice Life, Douchebag Award" to contest@bluenatic.com and suggestions for next week's "Crazy Bizarre Sports News Story Of The Week" to feedback@bluenatic.com.