Masterson's Musings...

A few true statements about the world of sports that you may find hard to believe...

- Baseball is actually NOT disbanding as a sport just because Yankee Stadium is closing its doors. There will be a 2009 season and probably many seasons after that. Someone should let the suits over at ESPN know that.

- If ESPN doesn't mention either the Yankees or Brett Favre at least once every 7 minutes, Jean Claude Van Damme gets to nutpunch Stuart Scott on national television.

-Speaking of Stuart Scott, in an intro to his own conversation with, you guessed it, Brett Favre, he actually compared Brett Favre to the Pope. He then went on to justify New York's newspaper coverage of Favre's introduction to the city (17 pages!) to the Pope's visit earlier this year (a measly 12!) by stating that after all, the Pope hadn't thrown for over 400 touchdowns and wasn't coming to a new team after 16 years. Yeah, the Pope knows a thing or two about not switching teams for the money considering he's been with the same one for about, oh, 2000 years.

-Things that don't exist: a bad Will Smith movie, the tooth fairy, Al Davis' eHarmony account, young Republicans, and the Broncos defense.

-Willy Taveras has flied out to right field in 87% of his at bats this season.......or at least that's just what it feels like.

-Greg Reynolds and Jason Hirsh have a lot of work to do during the offseason if they're even going to be in the mix for next year's starting rotation.

- The Broncos are 3-0. That's all you need to know.