Now you have to think more seriously about all these trade ideas don’t you?.

In a 2-week span the Padres have pulled themselves out of the gutter.  From last place to third place, as other teams have collapsed, they have started to win .

So now the braintrust needs to re-think about any potential trades involving pitchers.  The team has won 6-of-8….11-of-18…most of it coming on the arms of its starting rotation and its bullpen.

In the last 17-games, the Padres starters have an ERA of (2.02)…and the bullpen has an earned run average of 1.15.  Think about those numbers, the best in baseball.

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.