"The more you learn about Jorge Cantu -- cool, quiet, mild-mannered Jorge Cantu -- the more you discover what an interesting dude he is. Earlier in the season, he made the shocking revelation that he's such a huge fan of the Oakland Raiders that he attends one game a season, wears a skeleton mask and sits in the "Black Hole" section that is home to the Silver and Black's rowdiest fans. Today, after I found out he was among a handful of Marlins players able to snag tickets to the deciding Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night after their own game with the Phillies was rained out, I questioned him about his hockey knowledge, what with his Mexican upbringing and all.

Well, that set him off right quick. Cantu, who said he had seats behind the penalty box for last night's big victory by the Blackhawks, said he was quite the star on his street roller hockey team, a goal-scorer in the Wayne Gretzky mold, in his hometown of Reynosa.

"There's a lot of stuff you don't know about Mexico," Cantu started off when I acted skeptical about his claim. "I was good. I was always scoring for some reason. After school, we went at it. It was four against four, and we broke a lot of windows in cars and houses. It was four mean guys and us kids, man, in this neighborhood, and little girls and people in the street with their sticks and their skates, and their friggin' pucks, gosh, they were really mean. It was unbelievable.""