We’ve reached our first round finale! Tomorrow, TSC will post an updated bracket with the completed first round, and compare against our registered bracketologists. For now, just vote for who you think is “Not Now.”

No. 8 Brett Favre, Green Bay? starting? quarterback vs. No. 9 Sammy Sosa, corked bat specialist.

Why Favre is Not Now: Nobody gets more “Now” than Brett Favre as I type. For weeks, the retired Green Bay legend has written and rewritten the sports pages, putting us in double digits for “Overkilled Sports Dramas in the Past 16 Months.” It doesn’t need to be spelled out for anybody — FavreGate has taken more twists than a Kaleidoscope at a science fair. But unlike Bonds, Clemens or Vick, the mainstream media has an unhealthy mancrush on Favre, setting forth a twisted perception that anything Favre does turns to gold. Damn Kaleidoscope. But no, he’s plotted this enormous attention-whorelike drama to keep us watching SportsCenter during the dog days of summer.

Why Sosa is Not Now: Sluggin’ Sammy retired a few months ago after initially putting on an exciting show for us back in the late 90s. We marveled at his broken English and ate up his chase with Big Mac during that historic 1998 chase for Roger Maris season. Sosa always trailed a few homers behind Big Mac; and to compensate those deep, inner feelings of being overshadowed during the greatest home run chase ever, Sammy used a corked bat in 2003. Granted, we will always remember the heart-warming hug between Sosa and Big Mac when No. 62 barley scraped over the wall in St. Louis, but if we’re talking post-1998 legacies, Sosa went downhill faster than Miley Cyrus in 2010 (yeah, that’s a prediction, and a very good one at that).

TSC chooses: Favre.

Now vote to your right, dammit!