A day late and a buck short (no seriously, BFD doesn’t pay me – does someone have bus money?)  Nevertheless, here is this week’s power ranking!  No change at the top, but since I have the attention span of a – hey look over there!  Er yeah… wholesale changes everywhere else.

1.  Gaza Hezballers: The Hezballers hold on to the top spot, mostly because I’m still dominating my fantasy league by a ridiculous 19 points.  Seriously – the last three years I’ve finished dead last.  This is about the best thing going for me right now.

2.  The New York Mets:  I like a team that provides me comic relief.  And nothing says big dysfunctional family like firing your manager, pitching coach and hitting first base coach after back-to-back wins – and releasing the statement at 3:15AM EST!  Honestly, Omar Minaya gets too much of a free pass – he’s made some truly awful signings, and expecting to contend with a team that would rather read Readers Digest and watch Matlock than play baseball isn’t usually a winning formula.

3.  Hank Steinbrenner:  Special thanks to the ever-vigilant Crawfish Boxes for pointing this one out to me.  And I quote: “My only message is simple,” Steinbrenner said in Tampa, Fla. “The National League needs to join the 21st century. They need to grow up and join the 21st century.”  There are limitless possibilities there – seriously, free-for-all in the comments.

4.  Tiger Woods:  Look, I’m not really a golf guy.  I enjoy it in HD because it’s pretty to watch – but my interest extends only as far as Tiger’s in contention.  That said, you have no soul if you weren’t consumed by the Saturday-Sunday-Monday spectacle that took place.  His Saturday round was completely ridiculous, and he birdied 18 TWO days in a row to prolong the tournament.  All on a bum knee.  That, friends, is complete and total domination of a sport.

5.  The NL West:  One team over .500?  Check!  Reigning NL Champions in last?  Check!  General indifference of national media?  Check!  Ladies and gentlemen your NL West!  After a sizzling start the D-backs have stuttered back down to earth.  Joe Torre doesn’t seem to be able to get Dodger fans in the stands before the 3rd inning (though to be fair, who can?)  And only one team has scored over 300 runs so far this season.  Thankfully this sort of anemic baseball only airs after 10pm.

Sidenote: Guess who’s calling the College World Series?  Robin Ventura!  Does anyone – ANYONE – look at that guy and not think “got his ass kicked by 40-year old Nolan Ryan”?