Friday Buzz: Viagra on the field

Compiled by Joe Garvey

The New York Daily News reported this week that numerous athletes have used Viagra to boost their athletic performances - on the field.

According to John Romano, the senior editor at bodybuilding magazine Muscular Development, many athletes take Viagra with anabolic steroids before a workout, hoping Viagra's ability to dilate blood vessels will help deliver the anabolics to their various muscle groups.

A word of caution: Athletes who experience a workout boost lasting more than four hours should seek immediate medical attention to avoid long-term injury.

Good grief!

Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Tribune might join Steve Bartman in Cubs' lore if the North Siders fail to end their championship drought this year.

Morrissey, commenting how strange it was to write that the Cubs had the best record in the majors, noted in a recent column: "It's like writing, 'Charlie Brown leads the NFL in field-goal-kicking percentage.' "

It seems Lucy yanked away the ball Wednesday when slugging outfielder Alfonso Soriano went down for possibly six weeks with a broken hand.

Fans in the Cubs' Peanuts gallery have two words for Morrissey for invoking baseball's most famous loser just when things were going so well:

"You blockhead!"

More evidence of global warming

Philadelphia Eagles fans infamously booed Santa Claus years ago.

Yankees fans did them one better this week. They booed the sun.

With the New Yorkers getting toasted by the Royals on a scorching day at the Stadium, fans savored some relief when a cloud obscured the sun in the fifth inning, according to lioninoil.blogspot.

But when the cloud had the nerve to move moments later, fans turned up the heat on El Sol by delivering a hearty Bronx cheer.

The Buzz hears the fans' actions really burned up the sun. He's threatening to tan their hides.

Icing call

Tiger Woods is still on thin ice with the six or so NHL diehards still out there.

Woods raised their hackles last week. When asked who he was rooting for in the Stanley Cup finals, he replied: "I don't really care.... I don't think anybody really watches hockey anymore."

That so upset former coach and current TV analyst Mike Milbury that he sounded as if he wanted to lash Tiger with a dead octopus.

"You know what? I'm gonna change the name now. It's gonna be Tiger Wuss," Milbury huffed. "Here's a guy that took about three months to get over a simple arthroscopic surgery. You look at (Penguins forward) Ryan Malone. His face exploded with a slap shot last night - he's back out in 10 minutes! Keep your yap shut, Tiger, or I'll send a couple of wingers down there - (Penguins forward) Gary Roberts - to tidy you up a little bit, meathead."

In other words: NAH, NAH NAN-NAN-NAH!

But if Tiger is so wrong, why did ESPN, which fills its various networks this time of the year with more canned material than a supermarket shelf, tell the NHL to take a hike a few years ago? Why wasn't NBC interested in televising all of the games in the finals?

So who's the meathead?

Quiet, please

The Tides gave Thunderstix to the first 5,000 folks through the gate at Harbor Park on Thursday night.

Fans apparently had to supply their own aspirin and earplugs.