Favre quite contrary
how does your great legend grow
to look like Emmitt's
Can't we all just move along?
Yes, Green Bay probably did pressure Brett Favre into making a decision on his future, but anything short of the first day of training camp is "rushing things" for Favre.
The Packers needed to get ready for a draft, look at players, make decisions. But for the last few years all roads to Green Bay's future kept running through Kiln, Mississippi.
How can a team work up a roster, draft list and a personality when so much of its soul and salary cap is manifest in one man? A man who can't make up his mind.
You honestly wonder how this guy could make snap decisions on where to throw the football, though a look at his interception totals makes that easier to understand.
He's among the top 10 best-ever, but so was Emmitt Smith before he moved to the Arizona Cardinals.
There have certainly been other larger-than-life characters who kept coming back and coming back again. Christopher Lee played the one I'm thinking of. Favre needs to seriously think about the time -- very soon -- when people are going to start thinking they'll need to drive a stake through his heart to get rid of him.
teams say no to Bonds
now in a class, by himself
baseball's lessons learned
It's all rumor, says Jeff Borris, the agent for home run king Barry Bonds. The Arizona Diamondbacks, the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox were never interested in Mr. Congeniality.
Think about it. How could they be?
It's been said quite a bit in this space (here, here, and here) that Barry Bonds was a victim of a revisionist historian -- Commissioner Bud Selig -- who liberally applied the clear to baseball's (and his own) record while creaming Bonds with anachronistic standards.
In other words, whether or not Barry Bonds used steroids, it wasn't against baseball's rules at the time and everyone knew about the league-wide abuse, including Selig.
We haven't heard of Bonds flunking one drug test for performance enhancers yet and we probably won't, though he may go to prison for lying to the feds.
I never said he was a nice guy, just that he was railroaded by his own sport and a federal investigation that rivals Ken Starr's for making roaring rapids out of a little Whitewater. BALCO manufactured, not imported, and, while it was illegal, what Bonds probably did was no worse than what any of the other 85-percent of major leaguers were doing at the time.
And again, all with baseball's implicit knowledge. The sport was dirty, top to bottom, but Bonds was singled out. At least until the Mitchell Report and Roger Clemens.
Nonetheless -- like Slick Bill -- if Bonds lied under oath, he lied, and deserves to be called on it.
But now that we all know Bonds gave the federal grand jury his own version of "depends on what your definition of 'is' is" testimony, we also know that any major league general manager interested in resuscitating the baseball version of Frankenstein's monster needs electro-shock therapy. Lobotomies would not be out of the question.
Too big a problem in the locker room. He'd need his own wing for all the attention and the positivity he'd suck away from the rest of his teammates.
Too big a problem for the team PR department. He's his own Bobblehead Night every game he plays.
Too big a problem for baseball.
Dara Torres wins
hope she makes positive waves
but negative tests
Dara Torres' American record-setting performance in qualifying for the Olympics was sad for former Chapin Husky Lara Jackson, who finished third and out of the running for Beijing after breaking Torres' record in the 50-meter freestyle one day before Torres took it back, along with an expense-paid trip to China.
But Torres' win was still a wonder to watch. Remember, she first took gold for the United States in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
If most of us had to be in the water for nearly a quarter century, we'd prune up. A lot.
Dara Torres simply became a fish.
Forget drug-testing, I say we check for gills.
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