Exactly 10 minutes after the 4 p.m. trade deadline, and Ken Griffey Jr. already has a new uniform. They must have a quick assembly line in Chicago.
Then, exactly 20 minutes after the 4 p.m. trade deadline, NESN is reporting that the Red Sox have traded Manny Ramirez to the L.A. Dodgers in a three-way deal that would bring Jason Bay to Boston.
More to come . . .
You can be Urkel or you can be Juliet’s Romeo. You can be LeBron or you can be Poindexter. You can ace your tests or you can party late. You can rock white Ts or Lacoste Polos.
Or you can do all of the above. That would make you a Nerdy McFly.
Nerdy McFly? Isn’t that some sort of comic book?
No, it’s an ideology all about balance. You can be smart and you can be cool at the same time. If you’re laughing, it’s because you’re not a Nerdy McFly yet. You don’t understand.
With the NBA Draft just days away, we can pretty much predict the first five-to-10 players to be chosen in the first round. It’s a little bit tougher to determine what kind of endorsement deals the top players will get, but shoe contracts will surely be signed and the biggest restaurant chains will get new spokesmen.
Then there will be the guys who get paid to endorse the products that you can only scratch your head and wonder, “Why on earth is he sponsored by this company?” It’s happened before and you know it’s going to happen again. Hopefully, for the sake of the athlete’s dignity, they don’t end up endorsing products like these:
We know now that Raph was shootin’ the juice, but did he really need help, you know, shootin’ the juice? A sponsership with a major company like Viagra will put bones in your pocket — in more than one way — but this is the most degrading product you could endorse. It shows that you’re washed up and you just don’t have it anymore.