I am writing this article on behalf of the millions of baseball fans across the country that do not want laborious, momentum-ending instant replay brought into Major League Baseball. In the simplest terms, there are sports, there are games, there are events, and there is baseball. Please, for the love of all that is American, reject any notion of inserting any form of instant replay into Major League Baseball. Reject the media's notion that a controversial home run puts a "black eye" on baseball. Reject the story-depraved sports writers' assertions that baseball is behind the times. Reject the fairweather fan's foot-stomping demands for the issue du jour.

Baseball is timeless. It is America. We are in an era where we are absolutely overwhelmed by sports media pressures, time contraints, and commercial demands. Let them pressure, constrain and demand while baseball soldiers on, oblivious to it all.

I urge you to reject these preposterous notions that instant replay in any form should be inserted into America's game. I instead urge you to write into the rulebook that instant replay may heretofore never be allowed to enter the hallowed diamonds. Let the nouveau sports have their way. Let baseball continue to dazzle us with its perfection in simplicity.

It is truly gratifying to be right about Brett Favre all these years. I always knew he was a selfish egomaniac and have accused him of just that for the better part of a decade now. It's gratifying to be right. Dating back to 1885 or whenever it was, the day he was drafted by the Falcons, impetulantly stomping his feet until he went somewhere he deemed acceptable, Brett Favre is the epitome of self aggrandizement, polarized by the media's undying love for placing their lips upon his hairy a*s.

Go back to 2004. Monday Night Football. Favre turns on the waterworks for Suzy Kolber in what was to be his grand retirement send-off. In a gurgling mess of blubbery sentiment appropriate for your average 7th grade girl in the drama club, Favre hogged the camera and the world talked of his greatness. Later that year he would lose his playoff game in Philadelphia, marking his 5th playoff loss in his last 7 playoff games.

Boom! The Packers draft a QB in the first round. Favre comes back for "one more." He turns in a clunker...20 TDs, 29 INTs and 8 fumbles lost, the latter two stats being the worst among all starting QBs that season. His "last season" was capped off by an embarrassing 1 TD, 4 INT performance leading to a 17-31 playoff loss at Lambeau Field to the hated Vikings. Clearly it's time, right?

Yet here we are in 2008 with the exact same story as 2005. Or 2006. Or 2007. Favre is ALL about himself. And those idiot Packers fans who think that he gives even one single crap about them are as stupid as he is. Since that first "retirement," here are the illustrious Brett Favre's regular season numbers (throw in 5 TDs and 6 INTs if you count the post-season):

66 TDs, 62 INTs, 12 FUM lost

The 74 turnovers are the most by any player in the NFL in that time frame, and after spending a bit of my morning here researching on www.pro-football-reference.com, I am fairly sure that's the most by any player in any three-year stretch in NFL history. His 288 all-time interceptions are the most by any QB ever. Do you realize he's never had a 40 TD season? On top of that, he's never thrown fewer than 13 INTs in a season? Then here's the kicker. I looked back at this guy's playoff record. Let's start with 13-9 all-time. Good, yes. Like insanely incredible? Hell no!

IN THE LAST TEN YEARS BRETT FAVRE HAS WON THREE PLAYOFF GAMES.

To put that in perspective for you, Eli Manning has FOUR playoff wins in his three-year career. What's everyone talking about? The last time Favre beat a team NOT named the Seahawks or 49ers was...get this...1998! I'm so disgusted by this guy. And I absolutely knew this would happen. Why? Because he doesn't care one lick about the Green Bay Packers and even less about their foam-cheese donning fans. Those morons actually think this guy cares about the Packers! And them! How rich! The most overrated player in the history of sports is still at it, hogging the camera, looking for the grand stage, and why? Because his ego is too great. It's too great to accept that there are only about four teams in the entire NFL that would even have him, and most of those teams are destined for the golf course in January.

I'd be curious to see it actually. If the Packers did let him go, would he be disgusting and low enough to go to the Minnesota Vikings? To stab all his Favre-lovers right in the chest with a foot-long dagger? I believe he would. I believe he would then pawn it off on the GB management...and I believe those moron fans of his in Green Bay would believe it. Favre is the lowest of low, hiding behind the pretense of a "good old boy," all the while massaging his own ego with John Madden's c*ck in his ass. He's about his personal records. Oh the records! That's all that matters.

He got his Super Bowl back when television was in black and white and people rode their horses to the big game. And since then he's absolutely sucked, slinging sh*t around the field every year like the self-important idiot he is.

I have received plenty of flak for my declaration of Favre as the most overrated player in the history of all sports. I've been saying it for the better part of the last 10 years. Today I stand by it proudly. Favre once again is showing his true colors, and the media will now make the Packers management out to be the villains. Sad. Truly sad. And it's even sadder that the world doesn't see just how selfish and self-important he is...and how little he cares about the fans who are holding a rally for him every Sunday. Sad.