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A little sports for ya...Dodger blue for kicks
If any of you are sports fans, you may have noticed a lot of big sports stories happening right now. There's the Brett Favre saga, and the Packers have offered to pay him NOT to play. There's football training camp and preseason coming up (I have high hopes for my Cowboys this year). There's Rafael Nadal's impending rise to the top spot in the world tennis rankings, an honor held by Roger Federer for quite a long time now (a record 235 weeks to be exact, since February 2, 2004). And for the baseball fans, there is plenty of news surrounding the trade deadline. CC Sabathia went from the Indians to the Brewers and has been stellar; Ivan Rodriguez was traded from Detroit to the Yankees; Mark Teixeira was traded from the Braves to the Angels; Ken Griffey Jr. (one of my all-time favorite players) was traded from the Reds to the White Sox; most exciting of all to me, there was a three team deal between the Pirates, Red Sox, and Dodgers that sent Jason Bay to Boston, four prospects to Pittsburgh and landed one of the most feared hitters in the game, Manny Ramirez, in Los Angeles. 
As ESPN.com's Jayson Stark said, "That should be a Hall of Fame ballot, not a shopping list of guys you could line up and trade for." Griffey accepted the trade on the basis that he has a much better chance to win the first World Series of his illustrious career with Chicago. If anybody deserves to win a Series, it's Ken Griffey Jr., who, in my opinion, is one of the classiest guys in baseball, and maybe even in all of sports (right up there with Brett Favre, even though most people agree his legacy has been diminished by the recent ongoings between him in the Packers). It's hard to find an athlete like him in the sporting world. Sure, there are plenty of athletes who are just as good as, if not better than, Griffey, but not many of them share the character that he has. He lives in a world where he is constantly scrutinized, yet I cannot recall a single time where I heard his name involved in any kind of scandal. I'm particularly stoked on Manny being in LA. I'm a Dodger fan, and a big bat like Manny was just what the team was missing. In my opinion, this move puts them in prime position to win the NL West, and hopefully to make a nice playoff run. He helped Boston win two World Series titles, and hopefully he can do the same for LA. At least now we can sit Andruw Jones, and his ridiculously low batting average, on the bench. We should see Manny in the lineup tonight versus the Diamondbacks, and hopefully we see him, and the Dodgers, playing in October.
As ESPN.com's Jayson Stark said, "That should be a Hall of Fame ballot, not a shopping list of guys you could line up and trade for." Griffey accepted the trade on the basis that he has a much better chance to win the first World Series of his illustrious career with Chicago. If anybody deserves to win a Series, it's Ken Griffey Jr., who, in my opinion, is one of the classiest guys in baseball, and maybe even in all of sports (right up there with Brett Favre, even though most people agree his legacy has been diminished by the recent ongoings between him in the Packers). It's hard to find an athlete like him in the sporting world. Sure, there are plenty of athletes who are just as good as, if not better than, Griffey, but not many of them share the character that he has. He lives in a world where he is constantly scrutinized, yet I cannot recall a single time where I heard his name involved in any kind of scandal. I'm particularly stoked on Manny being in LA. I'm a Dodger fan, and a big bat like Manny was just what the team was missing. In my opinion, this move puts them in prime position to win the NL West, and hopefully to make a nice playoff run. He helped Boston win two World Series titles, and hopefully he can do the same for LA. At least now we can sit Andruw Jones, and his ridiculously low batting average, on the bench. We should see Manny in the lineup tonight versus the Diamondbacks, and hopefully we see him, and the Dodgers, playing in October.
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