SCREW THE MATH

Taking you so far inside the numbers, you'll never find your way back out.

• If Michael Phelps sold all his Beijing medals at the current precious-metals exchange rate, he'd have enough cash to purchase 328 used copies of The Mark Spitz Complete Book of Swimming.


• Royals outfielder Mitch Maier will spend an average of five days on the disabled list for each of the three bones that were broken in his face by an HBP.


• The .308 BA against of minor league pitcher Victor Zambrano would actually rise .053 if he faced only Carlos Zambrano.


• Yankees pitcher Carl Pavano is undefeated when he pitches on 501 days of rest.


• Fake German hoopster Chris Kaman averaged 2.6 fewer points a game than fake Russian hoopster Becky Hammon in Beijing.


• At 5:1, Chris Henry's arrests-to-fumbles-lost ratio is tops among Bengals receivers.


• In the 237 straight weeks Roger Federer was ranked No. 1, Rafael Nadal could have watched their Wimbledon battle 8,295 times.


• Garret Anderson became the first player to go 0-for-5 with three strikeouts to snap a 23-game hit streak on the one-year anniversary of a 10-RBI game.


• Despite being inactive since June 17, Tiger Woods will likely finish in the top 15 of the FedExCup point standings without playing in any of the final four events.


• The Sonics haven't lost a game since leaving Seattle.

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