Manny being Manny; Favre being Favre

Joe Heller cartoon on Favre

One of my favorite lines from Blazing Saddles has Slim Pickens (Taggart) saying, "What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is going on here?"

Thursday was a Taggart day.

On Wednesday, the entire national sports media was going ga-ga over the possibility of former Packers QB Brett Favre coming out of retirement -- again -- to join the hated Minnesota Vikings.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune had head coach Brad Childress flying to Mississippi Wednesday night to meet with Favre; Childress was spotted gong into Vikings headquarters on Thursday. On Thursday, Yahoo! Sports had Favre telling Childress Wednesday night via the telephone that he was going to stay retired. Evidently, Sports Illustrated's Peter King and ESPN's Chris Mortenson and John Clayton were sleeping on the job. Yahoo! Sports? Gotta' love it.

Of course, it is just May 7 and Favre will likely change his mind three or four times before training camp begins and King, Mortenson and Clayton will be there, making sure to not get scooped and the circus will keep on playing.

Thursday morning it was announced that Dodgers' slugger Manny Ramirez would be suspended for 50 games for violating the league's substance abuse policy.

All I can say is I am shocked. I write in italics when I am being facetious. Well, at least in this blog I am.

Evidently, Manny was just being Manny. Word is he was one of the 103 players who tested positive for illegal drugs, you know, the same list that Alex Rodriguez was outed on. I wonder who was the first media member to ask A-Rod on Thursday what his reaction to the Manny news was?

My guess is that there are a few players who are also on that list who are now sweating bullets.

Manny said he took a medication that was prescribed from his doctor, who didn't know it was on the banned list. Manny had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source. Sources said that in addition to the artificial testosterone, Ramirez was identified as using the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG.

Evidently, that is just Manny being Minny.

What's in store for Friday? Favre will be in Minneapolis meeting the press, wearing a purple No. 4 jersey.

Manny, meanwhile, will stay in Los Angeles filming his new reality show for VH1. Filming will end on July 2.

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