## Sometimes (Sometimes?) Scott Boras doesn't know when to shut up. His latest rant is that the Mets ownership should sell the team because they are not spending enough money on players. Boras feels that since they are a 'big market team,' they should be signing high-priced free agents in order to "provide their fans with the type of team they deserve." Not to mention his commissions. Does he think no one can see through this ruse?
## Peyton Manning has been released by the Indianapolis Colts owner, Bob Irsay. While there is sadness all around over this move, Irsay claims that it was never about money. Oh, really? Had Peyton remained with the team, he would have been owed $28 million today. What team wouldn't want a 35-year old quarterback who spent the previous year on the DL with a neck injury? Especially for $28 million dollars. Wait till Scott Boras hears about this.
## While grocery shoppping Sunday, I came accross a product new to me. It was called Muscle Milk. I thought, this is an interesting product, until I read the label: Contains No Milk. No wonder ballplayers have a tough time with drug tests. You can't tell what's in products these days. When I was in the food service business, my company supplied juices to day care centers and the like. I read some of those labels. Raspberry juice contained 80% Apple juice. Peach was made with 80% Apple juice. Prune Juice was also 80% Apple juice, and so on. And Apple juice? Well, that was 80% Pear juice.
...and in a related story:
## Jose Canseco signed to play with a Mexican Triple-A team this summer, but it won't be happening. Canseco refused to take the required drug test so his deal was voided. Jose claims he has not taken any banned substances and is insulted by the request for the drug screen. Team officials, however, claim that Canseco admitted he was using PEDs in an interview with the team. Maybe it was that dreaded Apple Juice, Jose.
## Syracuse is on TV today at noon against Connecticut. It should be an interesting game according to Digger Phelps. He, of the matching tie and marking pen, waved that pen around claiming that Connecticut had the perfect defense to stop Syracuse and they were playing at a high level, based on that great defense. He said this will be THE upset of the tournament, because of that defense, ignoring the fact that the Orangemen have already beaten the Huskies twice this year. Luckily, there is a defense for Digger: the mute button.
## I made fun of Johann Santana earlier doing well throwing a simulated game against the Mets. Apparently, I wasn't too far off. After appearing in a spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals, this headline appeared on ESPN yesterday: Santana throws against Major Leaguers.
## Fenway park has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. This means that any changes will have to be reviewed and approved by the Massachusettes Historical Commission. I guess this means the clubhouse beermeister isn't going anywhere.
***THEY SAID IT***
"Mark Cuban dropped his bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. He realized that even though he's a billionaire, Tommy LaSorda's pregame meals would bankrupt him." -- Brad Dickson
"A new study says high-performance engine sounds sexually arouse 99 per cent of women while revving an economy car turns them off. In a related story, I sold my Toyota Echo." -- RJ Currie
"The New York Mets could be paying for years after a judge ruled the team had to reimburse $83 million in ill-gotten gains from Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Big deal, say team accountants: Just think of it as having a second Bobby Bonilla deal on the books." -- Dwight Perry
"A caged lion at a charity event reportedly urinated on Patriots wideout Chad Ochocinco. You catch only 15 passes in a season, and everyone is a critic." -- Budd Bailey, Buffalo News
"Only 16 percent of United flights out of O'Hare arrived on time the first day after the United-Continental merger. Normally when people are this frustrated in Chicago, the Cubs are involved." -- Janice Hough
"Queen Elizabeth II will open the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Meanwhile, Camilla Parker Bowles will open the equestrian events with Charles riding her over the ceremonial first jump." -- Jim Barach
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