Dec 15, 2006 15:25
Q: The Sox should just tell Manny he got traded to Boston. He won't know the difference.
--Mike H, Noxen, N.H.
SG: I love this idea. They could go all out with this: Call him up, tell him he's been traded to Boston, have him pack up all of his stuff, fly him in circles in the team jet for five hours, then drop him off in Cambridge and tell him he's on the West Coast. He might fall for it. By the time the season starts, it will be too late for him to complain. I really think this could work.
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Q: All right, it's time for the big question. You are offered a five-year deal to GM any NBA team of your choice. Here's the catch: You have to open-mouth kiss Rick Reilly for 24 seconds on "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson. Then you have to ask, on national TV, for an autograph on a copy of one of his columns, and then say that it made you "weep" and that you "didn't know that sportswriting could be about so much more than sports." I think your faithful readers deserve to know how much the NBA really means to you.
--Wayland, Cedar Falls, Iowa
SG: The sad thing is, I actually mulled this one over. I'd do just about anything to run my own NBA team. That got me thinking -- shouldn't this be a reality show? Like a cross between "The Apprentice" and "Fear Factor"? I would absolutely eat my way out of a coffin of maggots for a chance to run an NBA team. Somebody get Joe Rogan on the phone.