Sports Frog

• Some things about Spring are predictable. April showers... rainouts.... some phenom that won't amount to shit.... and Pedro going down like a crack whore.

Pedro Martínez, who left before reporters were permitted in the clubhouse, told Manager Willie Randolph that he felt a "little twinge or a pop" in the back of his leg after throwing his 57th pitch of the night to Matt Treanor. He is scheduled to fly to New York on Wednesday morning to have a magnetic resonance imaging exam and be evaluated by Dr. David Altchek, the team's medical director.

• Hey kids, would you like to add some bloody gauze or used syringes to your baseball memorablia collection. The whore that is Brian McNamee is putting up all his Roger Clemen's collectibles for sale.

• Moises Alou let's Bartman off the hook. "I wouldn't have been able to catch the ball, I woud have pulled a hamstring." Ok he didn't say that, but odds are....

Alou, now with the Mets, said he wouldn't have caught the now-infamous pop foul in the 2003 National League Championship Series that hit the heel of Bartman's hand in the eighth inning of Game 6, prolonging an inning in which the Marlins later rallied for the lead.

• Pays by the Rays. The Rays did as expected Tuesday in picking up OF Carl Crawford's 2009 option for $8.25-million and declining OF Rocco Baldelli's $6-million option by giving him a $4-million buyout and making him a free agent after the season, but what was unexpected was a three-year, $10.5-million contract for reliever Dan Wheeler with an option for 2011.

• The New York Knicks will turn their basketball operations over to Donnie Walsh on Wednesday. Good news? Perhaps.. read on....

Walsh, the longtime Indiana Pacers executive, will replace Isiah Thomas as president. Thomas is also the Knicks' coach.

Thomas' future remains unclear (unclear as the swamps in the Meadowlands). He has repeatedly said he expects to be with the Knicks next season, but that likely will be up to Walsh -- who hired Thomas to coach the Pacers in 2000.

So does Isiah go? He destroyed a franchise. Destroyed a league (CBA). Grabbed some expensive ass and made Red Holtzman spin in his grave like a food processor.

• Bob Kraft. Sorry we got caught cheating, glad we won.

• Dr Z weighs in with some Onion like reporting from the owners meetings. I also would take an expense paid trip to the Breakers to cover the meetings if we had that kind of cash in the Frog coffers.

" The issue of a defensive team calling time out to distract a team in the process of kicking a field goal was tabled. Designated tables include mahogany, maple and cherrywood."

• With a bag of salt.... With the words "Feed The Children" written across his black T-shirt, NFL outcast Adam "Pacman" Jones stood outside the church doors, passing out almost 500 boxes of food and toiletries to the people who know him best.