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Farny Could Fly Higher than an Eagle cause he was the wind beneath my wings... Goodbye Farny, you shall be missed. [Shedding Tears]

The Angels trade for Mark Teixeira yesterday was for the most part unilaterally approved. And why wouldn't it be? Teixeira is a beast, he instantaneously becomes the Angels best hitter (Yes, he's better than Vlad now). He immediately gives them punch in the middle of their lineup that they've needed ever since Troy Glaus left his HGH driven prime. And all they had to give up was Casey Kotchman a good but not great 1B in the start of his prime and minor league pitcher Steve Marek who is being turned into a reliever in the minor leagues. And yet, somehow someway some people (Doug Gottlieb) are not a fan of this trade. Ok so let's analyze this piece by piece. The Angels have the best team in baseball right now, they have the best record and they have as good a chance as any to win the world series. But their strength is pitching, they are currently 19th in the league in runs scored. They needed to add a bat and they needed power. Would it have been nice to add Teixeir...

The WGC Bridgestone (formerly NEC) Invitational has a 9 year history. In those 9 years it could have been summed up in one word, Tiger. The first three WGC NEC Invitationals were won by whom? Tiger. The last three WGC Bridgestone tournaments were won by whom? Tiger. So congrats to all of those 75 players playing in the tournament starting tomorrow. You actually have a chance to win the grand prize of an 8 million dollar purse. It must feel good to actually have a chance.

So I haven't done the Friday Video Blowout in awhile, most of it was due to laziness. Anyway, are people more in favor of sporadic videos being posted that I enjoy during the week? Or the typical 10 video blowout on friday?

Carl Pavano of course who made his first rehab start for the RiverDogs last night. He's gonna be great in September. Sorry, I just had to make myself laugh. "To say you can count on them right now, given that neither have pitched in minor league games yet, would be an overstatement," Cashman said. (Hughes also pitched last night.)

Bringing Ron Artest into Houston certainly sounds like a good decision in basketball terms. The Rockets gave up Bobby Jackson (2008 version not the 2002 version), Donte Green and their 2009 draft pick (which will certainly be in the high teens if not the 20s). In return they receive a stellar defender with ferocious intensity and someone on the offensive end who could easily drop 17 points a game. But what about the ole chemistry? Shane Battier seems like a slightly poor mans sane version of Ron Artest. He defends hard and is serviceable on the offensive end all while being a model citizen. How exactly is he going to deal with being on the court/losing playing time due to Artests arrival? For Yao Ming and T-Mac they certainly will welcome the added talent, but they both are soft and a little introverted, quite the opposite of Ronny Ron. How exactly will they become good teams with Artest? Can you even for a second imagine Artest and Yao conversing? The Rockets certainly had to...

Somehow I'm 25 years old am an avid sports fan, have watched the Indy 500 for what surely amounts to at least 1 complete race and yet I never learned of the ridiculousness of the Brickyard Crossing until this past weekend. There are tons of unique golf courses in this world, and yet surely a golf course which includes 4 holes within the infield of arguably the most storied race track in America is in its own odd class. Hopefully, if I ever end up near Indianapolis I will be able to play this very weird but notable course.

You're 4-6 in your last 10 and your 2.5 games out of the division. You need something extra, you need a spark. You have a solid rotation but you need that stud, the pitcher who is going to dominate. And it just so happens you have him stashed away in the minor leagues dominating hitters in every start. So, you leave him there of course. Seriously, there is nothing more baffling then what the Twins are doing to Francisco Liriano. Coming into this season he could have been considered their most important player, a potential ace on a team clearly lacking one. But he struggled mightily in regaining his stuff post Tommy John surgery so he was rightly sent down to the minors. And he has found his stuff. He's had his stuff for awhile now throwing together 5 terrific starts in a row before having a mediocre start last night. And yet, even with his agent complaining about the franchise, he's sat there in Rochester waiting for the call. A call that is being blocked by 5 pitch...

If you watched any of the Yanks Sox games over the weekend than you most certainly have learned that the Yanks parted ways with 4 players in order to acquire Damaso Marte and Xavier Nady. And if you have watched this analyzed by anybody on FOX or ESPN you would have gathered that the Yankees just went to Pittsburgh punched the Pirates brass in the face and stole two players. Color me a little less impressed by the Yankees. Sure if you look at the statline for Xavier Nady this year it looks great. The Yanks needed a corner outfielder and they needed a right hand bat. Nady is both and was hitting .330 for the Pirates. What's better than that? How about a player with some sort of historical track record both in the regular season or in the postseason. He's hit 20 home runs in a season just once, and he's 29 so he's not exactly young. He's had 3 postseason at bats in his entire career. He hit .264 for the Mets in 06 before they jettisoned him in another deal th...

The weekly waste has been absent for awhile, but I think we can all agree that these two are a unanimous selection for the waste of the summer and should be removed from the Northeast entirely and potentially the entire planet. If they happened to be castrated chances are the Earth would instantly become a more enjoyable place.

In one off season the New Orleans Saints have gone out and picked up not the former most popular player for not one but two New York teams. In 2005 both Jonathan Vilma and Jeremy Shockey had their peak seasons. Shockey had 891 recieving yards and a career high 7 touchdown receptions making him the toast of the town and selling lots and lots of jerseys . Meanwhile, Vilma was making every single tackle in the last year of the Herman Edwards era and was the only worthwhile player on the entire roster and was certainly my favorite Jet . Now three years later both found themselves unwanted in the Big Apple and both found themselves shifted to the Bayou. So what's going to happen to these former Broadway heroes in 2008? Well, chances are they both shall turn into beasts. For Shockey he enters a squad that's been missing one thing, a tight end. With Colston, Bush, and Deuce Shockey will be seeing limited double teams and could potentially have a career year. And for Vilma, well h...

It shall be interesting to see whether or not Julio gets sent back to the DR or not. He's only 20 years old but he's been in the minors for 4 years. In the previous three he offered nothing special but this season in 40 innings between rookie ball and A ball he has a 1.86 ERA. It shall be interesting to see how the Cubbies handle this. Courtesy of AA

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So Wachovia goes and loses 8.86 Billion (With a B) dollars in the second quarter . So how are they going to turn it around and make up those losses? By advertising here at SimonOnSports of course. I generate Billions of grains of Rice (perhaps only millions or maybe like 5 full shaped grains) so its certainly a sound strategy.

FARNY Kyle Farnsworth has been a continuous joke on this here website and the bane of many Yankee fans since his arrival in the Bronx. I shivered when the Yanks drafted a kid ' comparable to Farny ' and a frighteningly said that he was the Player to Eye for the Yanks this season especially if they moved Joba into the rotation. And despite a very shaky start to the season, and his penchant for the walk, Farny seemed to find his groove once he regained the 8th inning role. And now? He's not giving up hits. Just how little hits is he giving up? In his last 10 appearances (9 innings) Farny hasn't given up a single hit. This is Farny, the man whom when Joe Girardi talked about having confidence in at the start of the season was laughed at by all Yankee fans. Now I'm still overly pessimistic and would expect him to get wrecked in a big spot in September or the postseason or hell this weekend against the So but still 9 innings no hits is pretty damn surprising. ED...

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One would think that every kid in America playing basketball dreamed of playing for Olympiakos at some point. Or not. So why is it that Josh Childress decided that he wanted to flee America, the NBA, and more specifically the Hawks for Greece. And in the prime of his career to boot. For the Hawks Childress was a solid but unspectacular player who probably needed to work on his jump shot. He certainly wasn't the star of their squad and thanks to the NBA's controlling rules he was a restricted free agent in Atlanta, meaning if he signed in the NBA chances are good the Hawks would have matched the deal given that it wouldn't have been too much money. So in essence Josh Childress didn't want to play for the Hawks so badly (or he liked 1+ million dollars more a year and European Vacations) that he was willing to forego 3 years in his prime in the NBA. Woo the Hawks suck.

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This man to the right is Alfredo Aceves. He's mexican, and was signed by the Yankees from the Mexican league. And for those reasons we can excuse him for the outfit the girl under his arm is wearing (he was working the pin stripes at least). Soon enough Mr. Aceves will be throwing in the Yankees bullpen. Why? Because he's tooling on every level of the minors. At a Mexican 25 (translation somewhere between 25 and 40) he's no youngin', so there's no reason to increase development. At single A Tampa in 8 starts he threw 47 innings to the tune of a 2.11 ERA with 37 Ks. At AA Trenton in 7 starts he threw 50 innings to the tune of a 1.8 ERA with 35 Ks. And now in AAA he's entered 4 games (1 start) and has thrown 11 innings to the tune of a 1.64 ERA with 15 Ks. Last night he even had Mr. Cashman in attendance last night watching his performance. So are you ready for a little extra latin flavor in the pen?

Favre wants out... Pennington wants out. Packers don't want Favre in the division. Jets aren't in the division. Packers want a Rodgers to start, but could use a veteran backup. Jets don't want Pennington to start but don't really want Clemens to start either. So.... PENNINGTON FOR FAVRE!!!! Get it done. Hell the Jets could even throw in a 5th rounder. And best yet, Favre won't even have to stop wearing green. It's a WIN FOR ALL PENNINGTON FOR FAVRE!!!

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Pointing to the camera celebrating as Jay Feely shanks his field goal attempt while I'm in attendance with one buddy wearing a Largent jersey and one buddy wearing a Shockey jersey. In the end the epic Giants fail was encapsulated in "Shockey Swallows" chants and tears of infinite sadness. Perhaps this could be the first jersey to lead the bonfire .

In the recent past the one thing that you noticed was the abundance of Jeremy Shockey jerseys. They've had some good players in the past 5-10 years including Barber, Strahan and Toomer and yet the Shockey jerseys completely dominated the crowd. For what reason? In some cases you would see entire families all decked out in Shockey Jerseys as if no one else played on the team. I have no idea, he was never the best player on the team and he often underachieved and he was consistently an annoying loudmouth. But I guess he won over the fans. Perhaps, it was the effort level or the whiteness or the massive American flag tattoo. Whatever it was, he sure had a vice grip on the Giants jersey sales. But now, of course he has become expendable. He got injured the Giants won the Superbowl without him and everyone began to question whether or not the Giants were better without him. And with the emergence of Kevin Boss it just pushed his need off the edge. And thus the Giants eventually m...

I wonder if on the back of the shirt it said screw Britain. Or said, Independent since 1776. What's with the green portion of the shirt?

In the end the pink pants just weren't enough. After a ton of rain throughout the tournament the outfits worn by all the golfers were tame and boring in comparison to the colorful array that comprised the Masters . But then there was the shining star of the ridiculous, Ian Poulter, on Sunday at the British Open flaunting pastel pink pants. And not only was he flaunting the only colored pants in contention he was flaunting them at the top of the leaderboard. He was tied for the lead with Paddy Irishman, and was chilling on the 17th green with an Eagle putt to come. And then in a flash his chances were gone. The dreaded three putt came and the Eagle putt and the chance for sole possession of the lead, became a one stroke deficit as Paddy Irishman drained his own birdie putt. Poulter Pink Pants managed to garner one more fist pump on the 18th when he saved par and put a little pressure back on Paddy Irishman to play at least +1 golf on his final 6 holes. But alas, Paddy Irishma...

Apparently a bunch of rain and miserable weather means that everybody needs to wear very boring outfits, unless they are Asian. Than they have ridiculous looking sweaters. DL3 Sporting The Always Boring All Black Leonard Is Also Trying Out for New Zealand's Rugby Team (What's with the Winter Hats) Um Colored Sleeves Aren't Completely Miserable Yay for Cardigan Sweaters, Atleast They are Semi Interesting I have No Idea What the Hell that Design Means The Asians apparently are the only Fashion Saving Grace Is he Going Fishing After This? Is that a Giant Zipper on his Pant Leg? Even Poulter Brings the Boring? What's Up?

There's a lot of reasons why the Mets are on a 10 game winning streak. The pitching is actually stepping up, from the starters to the bullpen everybody is pitching better for Jerry than they did for Willie. Additionally their key hitters Reyes, Wright and Beltran are hitting at a high level as well as a re-emergence of Carlos Delgado as a viable major leaguers. Of the reasons the Mets have won 10 in a row none is more shocking than the play of Fernando Tatis. Tatis has only been on an active roster once since 2003. Tatis started the month of July hitting .253 on the season with 1 homer in minimal playing time. Now getting consistent playing time for the Mets, he's hit 4 home runs this month and has boosted his average .53 points to .306. In addition Tatis hascome up with clutch hits for the Mets, big time hits that won games. Last night in the come back victory Tatis finished 3-4 with a home run and 3 RBI. So, what am I getting at here? This is a fluke. There's ...

Spiderman used super strength, super agility, web slinging ability and of course his Spider Sense to shoot a -5 under today.

Does (Pat) Golfer Yani Tseng play on the PGA or LPGA tour? Can you tell from this photo?

Yo Mlbz, I hear all this crap on the TV all the time about how Barry can't get no job about how he gettin blackballed. People don't want to sign Barry cause he a clubhouse cancer, he take roids and he brings distractions. You know what I feel for Barry, he the best ever Carl says where's the love for Carl? Carl is raking in the Atlantic League this year. Carl was raking in the Atlantic League last year too . And yet Carl can't get no love from nobody. You think Carl can't hit homers for some crap team? You think Carl ain't better than Fernando Tatis? Carl's already on Long Island, Carl could certainly play in Queens. You know what else? Carl's got a mustache . You want to sign Carl's stache. Carl hittin .359 with 14 homers and 49 rbi in 63 games . Carl a leader. Carl will rake in the playoffs. Sign Carl. Carl

A limited time offer, get your Marcus Camby former defensive player of the Year for the low low low price of flopping 2nd round picks. Comes with sweaty headbands, tattoos and zero nba titles.

(Note I worte this on my blackberry so it's format is crap and it's spelling is worse than the norm, which is of course normally bad.) Personally, I'm a green jacket guy first but after that the allure of the history of the Links courses is second to none. Without tiger this year I foresee a Sunday field which is entirely foreign dominated. 4 People to Watch to Contend Obvious - Ernie Els - Ernie is amongst the favorites for the tourney and the reson being is he always plays well on the links course. If he's not in one of the final pairings on Sunday I would be very surprised. A Little More Foreign Blood - Lee Westwood - he was right there at the us open but couldn't quite surpass tiger or rocco on the back 9. But back home and without tiger it might be time for westwood to lift up a major trophy. The return to first glory - Justin Rose - as a 17 year old rose finished 4th at this course. Since then there have been many valleys but never has he had as solid a ...