Is anyone else as tired as I am of hearing the hype over David Beckham’s arrival in the US? The press conferences, magazine covers, newspaper reports of Beckham and Victoria’s big arrival in Los Angeles where he’ll play for the LA Galaxy, is just a bit overdone for a sport that will never pass football, baseball, basketball or golf as an American favorite. The Galaxy ponied up $250 million over 5 years to lure Beckham away from England. I think this will go down as one of the absolute worst sports franchise moves in history. I just can’t imagine how the Galaxy plans on recouping that kind of money in a sport that is just not “mainstream” here in the US. And, at some point (hopefully some point soon), the paparazzi will get tired of taking pictures of the robot-like Posh Spice. On that note, just once I’d love to see a picture of her actually smiling instead of her signature pout.

Baseball

Our Barry Bonds watch is still going strong. The San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds is still 5 home runs away from breaking Hank Aarons home run record. The question on everyone’s mind right now is not so much “if” he’ll hit more than 755 career home runs, but “when” and which pitcher (team) will go down in history in making it happen.

If you can’t beat em join em. The Philadelphia Phillies have the dubious distinction of losing their 10,000th game, the first time in history that a sports franchise has reached that landmark. The clincher was hearing the fans “cheer” while the Phillies reached this milestone.

Rumor Mill

This weekend a broadcaster fueled the LA Lakers’ Kobe Bryant trade rumor when he apparently slipped (unintentionally as he thought the mic was off) and said he had been told that Kobe would go to the Grizzlies.