Starting Five

1. “All I do is win, win, win /No matter what…” DJ Khaled Braves pitcher Kris Medlen leads Atlanta to victory for the 21st consecutive time when he starts. Medlen pitches eight scoreless innings in a 3-0 shutout of the Marvins Marlins, raising his record to 9-1 while lowering his E.R.A. to 1.51. Remarkable.

The Braves have won 21 straight when this winner takes the hill for them, or something like that.

2. “This ride doesn’t go very fast.” The Windseeker at Knott’s Berry Farm may soon be known as the world’s largest monument to tort claims.

3. The Romney-versus-Obama battle has been, um, redistributed as Mother Jones versus The Drudge Report.

4. Are you familiar with this man? Yesterday 45 year-old infielder Omar Vizquel passed him on the all-time hits list.

5. Bill O’Reilly versus Jon Stewart on pay-per-view October 6. The bad news? The Miami-Notre Dame tussle from Soldier Field will be taking place simultaneously.

Reserves

Now Stanley Panther (we know him as “Stan Pants”) is just another member of the 47% (via Yardbarker).

Ichiro Suzuki collects seven hits in eight at-bats, including a game-winner, in the Yanks’ doubleheader sweep of Toronto, but glory hound Derek Jeter muscles in on the spotlight by collecting his 200th hit of the season. That gives Jeter eight 200-hit seasons in pinstripes, tying him with Lou Gehrig for the franchise record.

Don’t you think that the residents of Atlantis would dispute this headline?

ESPN’s man of letters, Bob Ley, tweets out the set list of last night’s Bruce Springsteen show at Met Life Stadium.

SI.com released its second annual Twitter 100 yesterday, an idea that may or may not have been inspired by a former employee. We mean, who’s to say? The best part about releasing such a list? Where, oh where, will all the people who feel unjustly slighted by not being included on the list go to vent? Hmmm.

Arianna Huffington with an interesting, and probably accurate, insight as to a simple problem plaguing the Romney campaign (there’s a joke here about, “Take two Romney speeches and call me in the morning” just dying to be made here).

Not bad, Michigan. Not bad.

Ordinarily, the Wolverines wait until the game’s final minute to punk Notre Dame.

On the subject of Notre Dame, here’s a podcast of an irrelevant writer discussing an irrelevant football program.

Riles should speak at the next Notre Dame pep rally — and bring his wife!

Okay, we’re on an abbreviated IAH! schedule this morning. Thanks for reading. If we can post more later, we will.