Today's Best 12.04.07

5. Detroit Restaurants - Detroit has been a city in need of a revitalization for a while now. Many an event has been bought to the city in order to jump start the economy, the Superbowl, the MLB all-star game, Wrestlemania. But I think this time the city has finally gotten it right. The Tigers have acquired Miguel Cabrera from the Marlins, and quite frankly, I think my blogging days are over. I'm headed to Detroit to open up a Venezuelan restaurant. I don't know much if anything about Venezuelan food, but I do know that I will have at least one loyal repeat customer. Although Ozzie Guillen said that Miguel has lost around 15 pounds this off-season, I think thats mainly because he hasn't sampled the cuisine at "Jose's Venezuelan Food" right across the street from Comerica Park.

4. Madison Square Garden - it's official, the garden floor breeds turnovers and poor shooting. It's a curse that even the nation's finest freshmen, O.J. Mayo, Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley weren't able to shake in the annual Jimmy V classic. After an impressive first half, Beasley only managed 2 points on 0-7 shooting in the second half as his K-State Wildcats fell to Notre Dame. Squaring off against each other in the late game, Mayo and Rose combined to shoot 9-29 from the floor with 7 turnovers in an ugly Memphis overtime victory.

3. Reggie Evans - Reggie Evans is the basketball equivalent of a replacement level power forward for the Philadelphia 76ers, and we now know for sure that with the naming of former Nets GM Ed Stefanski as the new Sixers GM that Reggie Evans has a job for life. Its well documented that Stefanski who replaces Billy King loves well below average, if not terrible power forwards. This is evidenced by Jason Collins repeatedly being present at the top of the depth chart on a Stefanski built roster. Reggie Evans is averaging 5.3 points and 8.5 rebounds in this young season which is well above Jason Collins' 1.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game giving Ed Stefanski roughly four Jason Collins in one player! Then again Ed could just decide that Jason Collins is the missing piece of the Philadelphia puzzle and trade the farm for him.

2. Rampant Speculation - for the second straight day the Johan Santana - to - Boston trade speculation endures as the Twins contemplate which if any of the Red Sox' two offers for the lefty they will accept. The drawn out process insinuates that the Twins are waiting for the Yankees to sweeten their deal to include Phil Hughes along with Melky Cabrera and lower level prospects. Although I am no fan of the Yankees, it seems that the Twins are being rather price discriminatory with the team from the Bronx. There is no way that John Lester and the supremely underwhelming Coco Crisp is compensation enough for the best pitcher in the league.

1. Pee Inspectors - stoner running back, Travis Henry won his marijuana suspension appeal today on the grounds that a handpicked expert of his choice was not present to witness the test. Being an expert that gets handpicked to watch someone pee sounds like the worst job of all time, and I am sure the pee expert union is happy that Travis Henry is fighting the good fight for them. While it is rare for the league substance violation rulings to be overturned, Henry may have also stumbled across a way to address one of the other troubling factors in his life, his 9 illegitimate kids. He can simply have his now loyal following over at the pee-inspectors union diversify into conception inspectors, legitimizing any illegitimate kids the back was planning to have in the future.