MMQB Review

Here are the five things I think I think about today's Monday Morning Quarterback from Peter King:

1. Peter this also interests me:

Factoid That May Interest Only Me

Remember Big Dawg? The wide-bodied Cleveland Browns mascot with the flabby dog mask?

Got his stomach stapled. He's gone from a Bernese Mountain Dawg to, well, just about a greyhound. The Dawg weighed 539 at the time of the stapling, a year ago. He's down to 249. That's a 290-pound loss. He wants to get to 190.

I do question putting this "factoid" right after questioning whether weight was a factor in the death of 49er lineman Thomas Herrion though. Talking about Herrion being 330 and then talking about stomach stapling just didn't seem right.

2. King talks about the price of gas being over $3 in California. What I find interesting is that nobody ever talks about how much of that cost is taxes.

3. King talks about the Randy Moss pot smoking quote and throws this in at the end, "But let's care about some behemoth using human growth hormone more than we do about Moss smoking pot, please." Was this a back-handed comment in relation to the death of the 330-pound Thomas Herrion? If so - shame on you Peter King.

4. If Drew Bledsoe was a Dominican baseball player - people would be questioning his birth certificate. "I only saw one practice, but Bledsoe looked very good throwing the ball. Isn't it amazing he's just 33?"

5. Peter King has no clue when it comes to baseball. Here's what he says about Manny Ramirez:

So people ask me: What do you have against Manny Ramirez? Hey, I am grateful that Ramirez was such a stud in helping the Red Sox win the World Series last year. But he disgraced the uniform before this year's trading deadline by refusing to go into a pennant-race game when his team needed him, taking a day off even though his team had another day off the next day and Trot Nixon was hurt. The latest straw: Ramirez took another game off last Wednesday in Detroit. This means Terry Francona, in the span of three weeks, did not start Ramirez FIVE TIMES so the latter could either get his brain clear or get his body rested. I realize the Red Sox will not be as good offensively after Theo Epstein trades Ramirez this winter. But I can't wait to watch a Manny-less team in 2006, whatever the outcome.

Two of the days were at management's request at the trade deadline (they did not want him injured and void any possible trade) and a third day was after a vicious outfield collision with Edgar Renteria.