Philly holiday if champs land Halladay

Philadelphia would be better off trading a few of their prospects for Toronto pitcher Roy Halladay. Toronto would be better off dealing him as well. I know that many people are saying that Philadelphia shouldnt make a trade for Halladay, because they are doing well enough without him.    I believe that right now, the Dodgers are the best team in the National League, because their pitching is much better than the Phillies. L.A. boasts the 2nd best ERA in the NL at 3.67 and Phily is 13th at 4.41. If Phily pulls the trigger and gets "Doc" Halladay, they will then probably be a slight favorite over the Dodgers if they meet in the postseason.
Plus, the Blue Jays will at least get more value if they trade him this season. His contract expires in 2010, and I dont anticipate him resigning with Toronto. as it's so tough for the Blue Jays to keep pace with the Red Sox, Yanks, and now Rays in the AL East.   Favre Not Feeling Minnesota   Brett Favre's decision to stay retired and not join the Vikings caught me off guard, like I think it did most people. After all, he is an ultimate competitior, and Minnesota seemed like the perfect fit to lock horns with the Green Bay Packers twice this season. Plus he had a legitimate chance to do what John Elway did: Ride into the sunset with another Vince Lombardi trophy.   Favre ticked off alot of people by waffling  so much the past 3-4 years when it came to retirement. But I think the media is to blame ... [More]

Time to revise instant replay in baseball

After seeing home plate umpire Mike Muchlinski call out Minnesota Twins player Michael Cuddyer at the plate, to end the game with Oakland winning 14-13, my heart sank and I wanted to throw my phone at the TV.
But I couldn't, as my friend would be quite upset, as the TV is his and he paid $7000 for it. Now only if we had a replay system where a moment such as this could be challenged and overturned.   I think I have a feasible option where almost everyone who is a baseball fan would agree.   Here's my proposal: Give each team one chance to challenge any play on the basepaths, where instant replay would be implemented. I know there are the baseball aficionado's who dont want "America's pasttime" tampered with anymore.   Well its time for those purists to stop living in the past and to give this new replay system a chance.  These baseball "purists" say that games are already taking long enough thesedays compared to the 1980's and 1990's.   But the reason that the games typically go closer to 3 hours these days instead of 2 hours, is that so few few starting pitchers pitch more than 6 or 7 innings a game. If we had a replay system with each team getting one challenge, it would take up about a grand total of a minute or two, so thats just a drop in the bucket when it comes to a time issue.   All baseball fans, and sports fans for that matter, want to see a well played game with a lot of effort. But we also want to see the tru... [More]

Hey Lesnar, UFC isn't the WWE

Brock Lesnar had something to prove at UFC 100 on Saturday night. He had only been in a grand total of four UFC matches, yet he was already heavyweight champion. The critics were out there, as Lesnar certainly had an easy route to the championship. Many had thought Frank Mir should have received the tile shot against Randy Couture in UFC 91. After all, Mir defeated Lesnar just 9 months prior.   Lesnar's actions this past weekend were ludicrous. First of all, he decided not to shake Mir's hand before the fight began. Then after he defeated Mir to retain the championship, he decided to flip off the crowd for quite some time. But Lesnar didnt stop there. He then went into some tirade about how he doesn't drink Budweiser because they don't sponsor him, and how he feels so good that he might even decide to lay on top of his wife, former WWE diva Sable.   Frank Mir did say some choice words for Brock in the days prior to their fight. The gist of what he said was that the UFC is not the WWE, which is the truth. Yet, this somehow enraged Lesnar so much that he acted the way he did.   When I first saw Lesnar acting like such a buffoon, I was thinking that UFC prez Dana White was possibly pushing him to be this way, in an effort to make him look like a heel (bad guy) in pro wrestling. But after hearing how White was enraged at Lesnar's actions, I now realize that despite winning his match, that Lesnar is the biggest loser in the sport at this moment.   ... [More]

Perry's Perspective - McNair was a True Gamer

Steve McNair was sort of like Frank Sinatra: He did things "His Way". In high school in Mississippi, he was named an All-American by SuperPrep Magazine. Being right in the heart of SEC country, McNair could have easily gone to a high-profile Top-20 program, but he decided to go to Alcorn State.

In 1995, McNair helped put Alcorn State and Division 1-AA on the national stage as ESPN started to broadcast games in which he was playing. Big reason behind this was McNair was in the process of setting records for career passing yards (14,496) and total career yards (16,283) records which he still holds today.

McNair's college numbers were gaudy enough to get him drafted No. 3 overall in the 1996 Draft by the Titans. In 1999, he was part of the "Music City Miracle" game, and this same team, was 1 yard away from taking Super Bowl XXXIV to overtime. Getting to the Super Bowl is an accomplishment that 90 percent of NFL quarterbacks never reach, and McNair had already reached this moment in only his fourth season.

I think McNair's finest moment as a player came in 2002. He had his taste of the Super Bowl and did everything, and I mean everything in his power to be in the trenches for his team. His team started out 1-4 and looked like a long shot just to make the playoffs. McNair was nursing multiple injuries (strained ribs, turf toe, and back pain), and was in so much pain he didn’t practice at all in December. But he laced 'em up, got on the field on game da... [More]