In all seriousness, I think ARod would be a better quarterback than Eli.

I don't know if Lupica comes up with these headlines, and I don't have the patience to read the column carefully enough to determine the context.

But the headline actually states "athletes' lies are the worst of all."

Like, Marion Jones lying about her PEDs is worse than ... well, you fill in the blank. I'm sure you can easily find a lie in your own experiences that hurt you more than Marion Jones's bogus Olympic medals. If you can not draw upon your own experiences, then simply watch one episode of Judge Greg Mathis or read a Noam Chomsky book.

One time, a guy told me he needed money to get his brother out of jail. The guy was lying. Cost me $90. Marion Jones, Mark McGwire, and Larry Craig combined have not cost me $90.


I would also like to point out that baseball is different than football:

"Just by playing the way he did against Tampa Bay and getting the Giants out of the first round, Eli Manning has already had a better postseason than A-Rod and Jeter combined."

From this point forward, when Lupica decides to deride the playoff performance of the 2007 Yankees, I think he should focus on Chien-Ming Wang's 19.00+ playoff ERA.

In the four games of the 2007 playoffs, ARod hit .26-something with a HR, made no errors (that I can recall), had a few bad strikeouts. Nothing spectacular; sort of mediocre.

Sort of like the way Eli Manning played when he beat the Bucs and the Cowboys.

Difference is, Eli had a good team backing him up.


A "pitcher" may be somewhat analagous to an NFL team's "defense," and Eli wouldn't have gotten anywhere if his defense had given up 60 points.

Right?

Right.

But that's not a really good analogy, is it? Because it's just stupid to compare football to baseball in the first place. Or boxing to baseball. Or Presidential races to baseball. Or the second season of "Lost" to baseball.

All of these comparisons reveal nothing.


I'd also like to point out that Jeter's 2007 playoff series was downright awful.

But, just by playing the way he did and getting to the first round, he had a better postseason than Jose Reyes, David Wright, Tom Glavine, and Paul Lo Duca combined.