The phrase you heard in the movie stands out. What they said on the TV commercial, caught your attention. Today those words stand out.

You’ve heard the phrases and they fit the situation perfectly.

All the big NBA players have met with the big clubs over the July 4th holiday, and it’s now time for those guys to get max contracts and make their decisions.

King James..Melo…Bosh and the wildcard guy in all this Pal Pao.

LeBron James has been wooed by all. He can stay in Miami with the Heat, which has won 2-rings during his run, or he can go to the Lakers or go home to Cleveland. Miami’s offer is worth 129million..anywhere else he gets a 90million package

Carmelo Anthony has visited everyone. For Melo, he can get the big payday to stay with the Knicks but he has to trust Phil Jackson can put better players around him with no budget and no draft picks.

Chris Bosh will have to take a paycut to stay with the Heat, but he is rumored ready to head to Houston with Dwight Howard.

The guy who could cause all the dominoes to fall a different direction is the Lakers Pao Gasol. He could be the icing on the cake. If he stays in LA and takes a cut it gives them cap space. He could be the key addition to lure the Big 3-back to Pat Riley’s team in Miami. He might be the Zen Master’s first building block if he goes to the Knicks.

The next 48-hours will be something. Who commits first. LeBron, Melo, or maybe Gasol.

You remember the phrases from the movie Jerry McGuire? You remember the words in the Beer commercial. NBA players are uttering them now. King James-Melo-Bosh… “Show me the money”. For Gasol , he becomes the most interesting man in the world, for what he does might impact everyone else.

This isn’t doing anyone any good…they made their choice-they will have to take the consequences.

It’s been 4-days since the Padres fired General Manager Josh Byrnes, and the public spitting contest between both sides has gotten ugly.

Here in San Diego, the general consensus of the fans is “good riddance”, let’s go get somebody new to run this sorry team.

But nationwide, the lashback is pretty much against Padres ownership and its President Mike Dee, something akin to, ‘here we go again-they don’t know what they’re doing’.

Miami: Be careful what you wish for. All this maneuvering by the Miami Heat to try and create salary cap space so the Dream Team can add Carmelo Anthony as a big money free agent. Sounds great LeBron-DWade and Chris Bosh would take pay cuts to bring Melo to Miami. Have they seen Melo play. Ball goes inside to Anthony-offense breaks down as he goes 1-on-1 to create own shot. The guy hasn’t won anything in the NBA.

Bad Blood-you better believe it. So this morning at 9am…US-Germany in the World Cup. They don’t like each other, these coaches, Joachim Low and Jurgen Klinsmann, and I doubt either side is willing to play for a tie to move on. Klinsmann got fired twice over there-as German World Cup coach, and at Bayern Munich. Germany accused the US coach of stealing players to come play in America. And everyone knows the Germans have beaten up the US twice in World Cup games.

A good move….A 1-year rental…A strong insurance policy.

Your mailing address is the AFC-West.  Your neighborhood has lots of big time yardage-throwing quarterbacks.  You know you will have to defend the pass and all the speed receivers in the division, much less the rest of the league.

Finally, Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco adds a veteran this off season, to his beleaguered defense, you know the one that was raznked 29^th against the pass.  The one that had 2-of the worst rated corners in the NFL.

Brandon Flowers is a mighty mite.  A 5’9 corner who can run, can tackle, and plays very well in shadow coverage.  He was cut by the Kansas Chiefs last month, after they decided he couldn’t play their press coverage, and had a 10.5 million cap figure.

Come to the ballpark, you’ll see things you never saw before

And so last night, the Jerry Colemanism rang true:  A Cuban pitcher, with a (7.31-ERA) at Triple A-El Paso, steps off the plane and hours later shuts out the San Francisco Giants.

Odri Despaigner, a 27-year old free agent defectee from Havana, who was given 1-million dollars in the spring by the Friars, comes out of nowhere to whitewash the Giants.

No one knew what to expect after he got rocked in 3-starts in the Pacific Coast League.  The Giants surely did not know what was coming at home plate either.