It's Monday. If Only I Were Garfield. Or There Was Football Tonight

It's So Monday And You Don't Even Know It Yet (Morning Edition)

• Here's a great piece by Darren Rovell of CNBC.com about the last shot of Game 5 of the Spurs vs Lakers game. To recap the Lakers were up 5 as the clock expired and Laker Sasha Vujacic hit a "meaningless" 3 as time expired to help the Lakers win by 8? Guess what the spread was? You got it, 8 points at tip-off and it fluctuated to 7.5 at some sportsbooks.
  
• It seems that the rumor that Matt Leinart could actually lose his starting job to Kurt Warner are heating up. And why not? Warner tossed 27 TD passes last season. Leinart got hurt and disappointed fantasy owners everywhere who had him as a sleeper tossing 27 TDs.
  
• I know a bunch of guys who attended the Best Buy 400 at Dover yesterday. I don't do the NASCAR thing but they left at 5 AM and came back home bearing gifts as the sun set. By gifts I mean leftover food and beverages. They swore it was a great time and actually seemed to mean it. I doubt that I'd go but these are not guys you would ever see watching a race on TV so I'm assuming this means that the tailgating was so excellent the race was just an ancillary event.
  
• We're not going to touch on Jason Taylor's press conference much. He wants a trade but does not want to destroy his image while pursuing a trade. He also claims that this is his last season in the NFL. My money is on him getting traded as training camps open for a conditional 2009 draft pick that can be no lower than a 4th and no higher than a 2nd. If you're still interested click here for more.
  
• I'm going to hit all of the Detroit Piston shit right here, right now. It looks like Flip Saunders is staying. Can you imagine 'Sheed playing for Larry Brown under MJ? Could Rip Hamilton both be moving as well? That seems about right because I can't picture them trade Billups or Prince.
• Can one kid single-handedly change the course of a season instantly? The early results are in and the test is positive. The kid is Jay Bruce and the team is the Cincinnati Reds.
  
• Check out an entertaining bit on some dream position eligibility scenarios for fantasy baseball. Wow, I feel more like a stat geek from just having written that. And I'm not a huge sabermetrics guy. Yet.
• Quick injury updates on Ryan Zimmerman, John Smoltz and David Ortiz.
  
• More crap on the latest NFL team to be linked to Los Angeles. The worst part is the speculation will never end until there is a team in LA.
  
• Looks like Gilbert Arenas is going to opt out. Odds are this is just a formality before he signs a multi-year deal with the Wizards. The only dark horses I can see are the Clippers or the Warriors. The Clippers would be interested if Brand and Maggette opt-out. The Warriors would offer a sign-and-trade scenario with Baron Davis and Arenas switching teams. Remember Arenas was originally a second-round pick of the Warriors and almost signed with the Clippers before heading to Washington.
• Mike Lieberthal has officially retired as a Philadelphia Phillie. Here's a nice article about him from the Philadelphia Daily News.
  
• Is Matt Holliday on his way out of Colorado?