Kevin Garnett doesn’t wanna’ go to Boston, and he’s not the only one. Seems Beantown’s long, glorious history of being a bit unfriendly to people of color (quotas for black baseball players in the 50s/60s! The championship Celtics not being nearly as popular as the hopeless Bruins!) is alive and well in present day professional athletics. Keith talks about the peculiarity of Boston as a huge diverse city – the accent’s the same, everyone takes the same trains and buses, but those heavily heavily separated neighborhoods remain divided by race in a way you don’t see so often in, say, New York or Los Angeles. Keith says that, having lived there, yeah – he noticed and felt the sort of thing guys like KG are talking about (having also lived in the area and in other parts of the state – I can say, yes. It’s a weird little facet of what’s overwhelmingly viewed as a liberal region).

In the toss to commercial, Dan brings up the “Dan Olbermann” thing – neither Dan nor Keith is sure which of them Dave was referring to, but … they know one of them’s deeply offended.

Ten years ago tonight, Mike Tyson went all “nom nom nom” on Evander Holyfield’s ear. [Evidently, Tyson came out of the corner earlier, sans mouthpiece. It was biteytimes aforethought!]

Ten years ago tomorrow, the last Sportscenter with Dan and Keith behind the desk aired. But – more on that tomorrow.

They talk about how, backstage at Letterman, they were kept away from the main guest Claire Danes. Honestly, Dan, you’ve peppered the last hour and a half with what I imagine you imagine are wink!nudge references to the temperature of the theatre vis-à-vis Ms. Dane’s nipples. Maybe it’s not so bad they kept you elsewhere.

Hey, Frank Thomas hit his 500th career home run!

The Great Peter Gammons joins Dan and Keith to do a little rundown of baseball topics.

Ken Griffey Jr.: will he go back to the Mariners? As much as Junior loves Seattle, Pete doesn’t see him heading back right now.

When can we expect a Roger Clemens backlash? Aside from the fact that the Yanks not having their first baseman is really pretty detrimental to how the bullpen works, Pete thinks - at the moment - everyone’s ok. Clemens has never been a big strikeout guy (yeah but they lost-) and now he’s in a busted bullpen (-to the Orioles!). Pete thinks he’s doing fine, but it may not be enough to satisfy NY fans. He also thinks this’d be a damn sad way for him to end his career. Rocket’s, not Peter’s. Pete’s not going anywhere.

What the heck is going to happen with Mark Buehrle?

Dan replays some of the “B List repartee from a pair of B List celebrities,” and Keith challenges Dan’s timeline-bending assertion that he “grew up” watching Letterman. After some prevarication, Dan admits he regretted saying it. Immediately.

Dan cops to not having mentioned Countdown last night, and – actually, I think Dan really wants to be in Worst Persons one day. Keith says Dan won’t be on the list, Keith will just complain about the slight forever, a la Dan (thanks for catching yourself and saying “complain,” KO).

The paparazzi presence outside the Ed Sullivan theatre kinda’ surprised KO last night. Surprised him and quite possibly blinded his girlfriend. Ah, the cornea-searing price of … moderate fame.

We’ll see you later on, for Countdown.