Thursday Items

-- Fergie!



-- DaJuan Morgan shares some of his poetry with Shutdown Corner.

-- The N&O is offering buyouts to 204 employees.

-- After the score of an Oakland A's game scrolled across ESPN's ticker the other day, this followed: "Thomas: 3B." I figured that was a typo. Nope. Frank Thomas hadn't hit a triple in six years.

-- A man at a Tigers game ordered a Mike's Hard Lemonade for his 7-year-old; he didn't know the drink contained alcohol. Whoopsies.

-- Dig the pretty pictures.