Tossing batting practice…because there are hundreds of Olympic stories to make fun of.

During the course of this column four Red Sox runners were waved around third and thrown out at the plate, “and I’d do it again.”

If anybody with Greek blood can play for the Greek baseball team then can anyone with American blood who failed to qualify for the freakin Olympics come play second base for the Sox?

Why is it you have to be from a country to represent them on the field, but you can be from anywhere to coach them?

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So wait are we rooting for or against the Iraq soccer team?

Pickup line overheard at the Olympic village “I’ll show you where we keep our weapons of mass destruction.”

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Is the ESPN Deportes version of the And 1 Mix tape tour a montage of Puerto Ricans playing team basketball and heaving three’s?

If the U.S. team makes it to the medal round they’ll have the chance to throw up enough bricks to rebuild the Ancient Greek ruins.

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On a serious note, fouling on every fast break opportunity as the Puerto Ricans did is a a disgraceful way to play the game. And I think their coach should be buried alive with his Pat Riley coaching the Knicks/Heat videotapes.

How about that riveting Japan/US softball game this morning. Im sure you were all watching at 5 a.m like I was so I’ll spare the details, but when you can score without getting a hit I think you gotta be the favorite to win it all.

Boring sport alert:
There has apparently been controversey in the U.S men’s swim team where Gary Hall Jr. was hauled off a relay team in favor of giving Michael Phelps the chance to go for 8 gold medals.
Hall’s agent went on a tirade claiming it was wrong to give a guy a chance at a record he isn’t going to get anyway. But my question is, when did swimmers need agents? Apparently those lucrative contracts on the pro swimming tour, and the subsequent endorsements are too much for one man to negotiate.

Another reason I don’t get the Olympics, Phelps lost to some guy named Thorpe today, who doesn’t play football, isn’t an indian, nor is he even American.

Water Polo is entertaining in a “why do you choose to dedicate your life to this sport” kind of way.

“That has meant training 10 hours a day, including match days to ensure that what the Americans lack in skill they can make up in fitness and strength.”
No Bill Parcells does not coach the Water Polo team, but if football coaches get wind of this there would be less heatstroke on the practice field in August, and more offensive lineman drownings. Which I think would entertain all.

I would watch another Patriots training camp session if lineman swimming in those full body wetsuits were a station drill.

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Must See TV: Women’s beach Volleyball…that is all

Still Scarred 2 days later TV: The Chinese women’s Volleyball team.

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I thought only high school gym teachers were good at Badminton, while everybody else giggled too hard at the phrase shuttle cock.

13 more days of Olympic madness to go, before team handball becomes irrelevant again.