When the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners 10-8 in ten innings yesterday (despite what Root Sports may tell you) on a three-run homer by Yan Gomes in the tenth, the reactions from the Mariners TV crew, Indians TV crew, and Indians radio crew were very, very different.

First, we'll lead with the Mariners TV call by Rick Rizzs, Dave Sims, and Mike Blowers. Note the sense of absolute depression in Rizzs' voice calling the homer and realizing that the Mariners have suffered a walkoff loss for the third time this series.

We all saw this coming, but I don't think we realized it would be this bad: the Grizzlies-Spurs Western Conference Finals opener on Sunday drew a putrid 3.9 overnight rating, the lowest for a Conference Finals Game 1 since 2007, when both the Pistons-Cavaliers (3.5, TNT) and Jazz-Spurs (3.8, ABC) did worse than this series.

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College Baseball
SEC Tournament, Hoover, AL
Quarterfinals
Kentucky vs. Mississippi -- Fox Sports Net, 10:30 a.m.
Alabama vs. Auburn -- Fox Sports Net, 2 p.m.
Florida vs. Texas A&M -- CSS, 4:30 p.m.
Mississippi State vs. Missouri -- CSS, 8 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

College Volleyball
AVCA Sand Championship -- CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

It was a pretty rough day in Cleveland for the Mariners, as Seattle blew leads in both the ninth and ten innings. The Mariners ended up losing 10-8 after a three-run walkoff homer by Indians catcher Yan Gomes in the bottom of the tenth. Apparently, nobody told the fine folks at Root Sports Northwest, as they scrubbed Gomes' homer from the record and proclaimed the Mariners 8-7 winners after the game (despite listing the correct winning and losing starting pitchers).

Considering the Mariners just bought a controlling interest in Root Northwest, maybe they're already using the network to rewrite history. Next up: the Mariners never traded Adam Jones to the Orioles in a package for Erik Bedard.

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Screamin' Stephen A. Smith filled in for one of the Mikes on Mike & Mike today as part of six consecutive hours on ESPN2 this morning. Whoever thought of that idea in Bristol needs to have a severe reality check. At one point, the topic shifted to random fans buying gifts for RGIII and his fiancee off their wedding registry. Some people have not taken kindly to this, and Mike Greenberg basically told him to ignore the negativity, because it is inevitable no matter what the topic.

When you're a high profile athlete, no matter what you do, you will have people writing and saying negative things. This makes sense, and Greenberg was right to tell RGIII to just ignore it. It should be a non-story.

Then, Smith swoops in and makes a bunch of nonsensical statements, including:

Eastern Conference Finals

Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers

TNT - Marv Albert, Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller & Craig Sager (Reporter)

ESPN Radio - Kevin Calabro, Hubie Brown

Game 1 Wednesday, May 22 @ Miami (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 2 Friday, May 24 @ Miami (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 3 Sunday, May 26 @ Indiana (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 4 Tuesday, May 28 @ Indiana (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 5* Thursday, May 30 @ Miami (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 6* Saturday, June 1 @ Indiana (TNT 8:30PM)
Game 7* Monday, June 3 @ Miami (TNT 8:30PM) 

Western Conference Finals

Memphis Grizzlies vs. San Antonio Spurs ESPN/ABC - Mike Breen, Hubie Brown (G1), Jeff Van Gundy (G2 through G7) & Doris Burke (Reporter)

ESPN Radio - Dave Pasch, Chris Mullin

Game 1 Sunday, May 19 @ San Antonio (ABC 3:30PM)
Game 2 Tuesday, May 21 @ San Antonio (ESPN 9PM)
Game 3 Saturday, May 25 @ Memphis (ESPN 9PM)
Game 4 Monday, May 27 @ Memphis (ESPN 9PM)
Game 5* Wednesday, May 29 @ San Antonio (ESPN 9PM)
Game 6* Friday, May 31 @ Memphis (ESPN 9PM)
Game 7* Sunday, June 2 @ San Antonio (ESPN 9PM)

*If necessary

H/T Sammy!

On Friday in Los Angeles, Metta World Peace gave what can only be described as the most MWP weather report ever.

He hopped on KTTV-TV to talk basketball and weather.

On today's AA Podcast we welcome award winning sports reporter Tom Verducci. Tom's an award winning field reporter for TBS and MLB Network as well as a game analyst for Fox and a respected writer for Sports Illustrated. Tuesday Tom will appear as a field reporter for MLB Network's coverage of Yankees-Orioles. Tom chats with AA about his many different duties in the baseball media and the 2013 MLB season taking shape. Topics include...

-Being honored as the best sports reporter in the nation. 
-The challenge of a sportswriter stepping into the broadcast booth. 
-Why he hasn't joined Twitter and his priorities as a reporter. 
-Why it's actually fun to follow the Yankees this year. 
-Miguel Cabrera possibly winning a second Triple Crown. 
-Races in the AL and NL Central. 
-The biggest in-game issue MLB must address moving forward.

In case you've missed any of our podcasts, check out all of our interviews by subscribing to the AA Podcast on iTunes or our AA Podcast RSS Page.

The Grizzlies' 105-83 loss in San Antonio in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals must have really taken a lot out of Memphis Head Coach Lionel Hollins.  Watch as he needs a few moments to collect himself and remember the identity of one of his key bench players - Jerryd Bayless.  At least he got to it eventually and didn't call him O.J. Mayo or Steve Francis.

Maybe we should forgive Hollins, the Grizzlies' effort was a forgettable one all the way around on Sunday.

[H/T For The Win]

On the final day of the Serie A season, AC Milan needed two goals in the final seven minutes for a 2-1 comeback win at Siena to qualify for next year's Champions League.  A Mario Balotelli penalty and Philippe Mexes goal prevented a disastrous draw or worse at the already relegated Siena when only a win would secure a Champions League spot.

Let's see... AC Milan... two goals in the final seven minutes... Champions League spot on the line... we've got to have the reaction video of Tiziano Crudeli for this insanity, right...