Thursday notes: Weight, Sifers, etc.

Tip of cap to Doug Weight, a great American hockey player.

Noted a little late tonight: Stratford’s Jaime Sifers (translated) to Mannheim.

Calder Cup Final begins Friday. Still think the numbers lean toward Binghamton. Six or seven.

Nick Bootland got a two-year contract extension from Kalamazoo.

New York Magazine on the Mets’ new minority owner and his short-selling of Lehman Bros. from 2008. Tweet of the Day (hat tip: @KenDavidoff).

And RIP, Margo Dydek.

Michael Fornabaio