It's Out of the Question: Manny's best cancer treatment
Couldn't Manny Ramirez respond best to Esquire correspondent Jonathan Papelbon's "cancer" comment by making a hefty donation to the Dodgers' City of Hope and Children's Hospital ThinkCure charity, to help wipe out a disease that too often becomes a trivial reference to someone who somehow ruffles the feathers of teammates in a locker room setting simply because of a unique outlook on life?
== Remember when the Dodgers brought 41-year-old Orel Hershiser back for the 2000 season - six starts, 1-5 record, 13.14 ERA, and a long walk back to the dugout during his final hook? Or Don Sutton, age 43, returning in '88 for a 3-6 record in 16 starts, then call it quits, then end up front-and-center in all the pictures when the team visited the White House after they somehow won the World Series?
So, spinning back to reality, what could a 37-year-old future Hall o' Famer like Pedro Martinez offer to a '09 Dodgers' starting rotation at this point in his banged-up career, other than as one final puncture wound to Fred Claire's reputation (and Tommy Lasorda's recommendation) after he's yanked off the mound by Joe Torre (too bad Grady Little isn't still around) during a six-run Rockies' first inning, one out into his third start in April, disappearing from the clubhouse with a midget under his arm, never to be seen again?
== Hasn't Ned Colletti pretty much set the stage for this year's Fab Five by picking Randy Wolf (again) over Randy Johnson and Jeff Weaver and Jason Schmidt over Jon Garland or Ben Sheets?
== Is Candace Parker, on the cover of a sports magazine with what looks like a basketball under her dress, a lovely way of sayin' how much she loves us? Anyone gauge Demi Moore or Britney Spears - or anyone else who has a pregnant woman fetish - for their approval?
== Why is a Euro bank like BNP Paribas bailing out U.S. sporting event purses instead of, say, planting a flag in the north pole and claiming it for France's next expansion project?
==Now does it look like the Lakers' offense misses Vlad Radmanovic off the bench?
== Whatever happened to Jack Lazorko?
== How would Michael Vick's former dog squad have fared in this year's Iditarod?
== What to you make of the latest Sporting News NFL mock draft (linked here), which, according to its "vibe," makes Mark Sanchez the No. 1 overall pick for the Detroit Lions, and Matthew Stafford going No. 10 to San Francisco? At some point, does it look like these things are put together by a bunch of guys throwing names into a helmet, taking a tequila shot, and then pulling slips of paper out and spitting all over 'em?
== How many more times must Michael Phelps apologize for being a 23-year-old knucklehead? And all those boxes of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes with his picture on it, getting donated to food banks because Kellogg's wants no part of milking the career of this cereal killer any more? Do those in need of a simple breakfast who now chow down on this stuff have to thank Phelps now for his adept ability to use a bong?
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