You may be wondering what in the world "Showcase Revue" is.  Well for those of you who plan on checking in to tomorrow's "What's The Deeley-O" for blog day on BTN (9-Noon at www.chevradioam.com), I have now given you some new material.

Showcase Revue: A movie shown on the channel "Showcase" in Canada which is guaranteed to feature nudity, sexuality, and maybe violence and coarse language.  These movies are played in the late hours.  Think borderline soft core porn.  

Examples of movies that would be played are: Basic Instinct, Crash (1990's version), Red Shoe Diaries, Shakespeare in Love, etc....you get the point, Canadians can be sick puds too.

With that said, we'll move on to the other "revues"...

Author Sam Moffie contacted me about 3 weeks ago about his sports/sex novel "SWAP".  When he contacted me he eluded to the time two New York Yankee players decided to swap wives back in the 1970's.  This book involved that kind of swap, but it really dug deep into the sex lives of two couples and the sex lives of those around them.  I ripped through the book in about 4 nights and this was the first fiction book I had read since High School.  I prefer to read books that are either autobiographical or non-fiction but I must say that I was thoroughly entertained by Sam's book.

If you are a big fan of baseball and love to read about sexual intercoarse then this is the book for you.  Check out Sam's website at: www.samsstories.com.  You will find the book to be interesting if you happen to take a look at it.  If Sam is reading this post, I thank you once again for sending me a copy of the book.

Staying away from sex but keeping with the swapping theme...

The Atlanta Braves were the runaway winners of the trade deadline deal this year.  Mark Teixeira is not only there to help the Braves reach the post-season but he could be the man that replaces Andruw Jones in the cleanup hole.  Tex is only 27 years old and he's proven to be a masher.  If they lock him up or trade him to another team they will get a lot.  Once Chipper is gone this team could have Tex, Jeff Francouer and Brian McCann as their stud hitters for many years to come.  Also, the pickup of Octavio Dotel was big.  They needed an extra guy in the bullpen that can dominate and Dotel can still bring it. 

Speaking of bullpens, Boston's pen is absolutely unreal with the addition of Eric Gagne.  Remember when they had a terrible bullpen back in 2003?  Well those days are long gone as they will shut down opponents anytime the pen is called upon.  Their main rival, New York, decided their bullpen was ok so they shipped Scott Proctor for the great Wilson Betemit.   Not exactly the marquee player you would expect the Yankees to get.   He can play about 5 different positions but does that help your bullpen?  No. 

If Juan Rivera does not come back this year, the Angels of Anaheim will have made a mistake not grabbing someone.  Having Bartolo Colon dinged and Ervin Santana dropped to AAA did not help their trading leverage either.

If Johan Santana was completely lights out in the playoffs during his career then I would agree with his statements.  He hasn't, so the next time he wants to get out of round 1 I suggest he pitch better than 1-3 and a 3.97 post-season era.  But we know what that outburst was all about: getting paid and looking like the victim while laughing straight to the bank.

Kenny Lofton is nice and we expected him to be traded eventually but doesn't Cleveland have a pitching problem?  They just sent Cliff Lee to the minor leagues and Jeremy Sowers is looking more like Josh Towers than Jeremy Bonderman.  Jake Westbrook also might want to pitch as if he deserved a fat contract.

Has Kyle Lohse ever met expectations?  Or has he turned into the next Jason Bere?  Sorry, that was a low blow to Bere who was a legitimate All-Star once.

Where's Prior and Wood?

Nevermind.

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