This is farewell for The Bottom 10, which made its debut at the beginning of the year. I'm way behind on building out a couple of the Web sites that are supposed to help fund my retirement, plus summer is too slow a time of the year to consistently find 10 slimeballs, screw-ups, scandals and loveable losers to populate The Bottom 10 each week. With that in mind, I offer up a Bottom 10 with a twist - massive misses on my part from among the more than 250 victims I've picked on this year. So without further adieu, here they are:

(10) Los Angeles Dodgers: I all but handed the NL West divisional title to the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 27. Ooops.

(9) Marshawn Lynch: On June 16, I lambasted the Bills running back for not owning up to his role in a hit-and-run accident in late May and suggested that maybe the NFL should consider sitting him down for half a season. What was I thinking? Only Adam Jones or members of the Cincinnati Bengals get that kind of treatment unless guns are involved. A warning from Roger Goodell and a few hours of community service - and trust me that the judge performed a community service by yanking Lynch's driver's license - should be sufficient.

(8) Florida Marlins: I kicked off the baseball season by chewing out the Marlins for spending less on their entire roster than the Yankees are paying A-Rod this year. Turns out they have the right idea. And doing it the Marlins way has the added advantage of not getting hometown newspaper coverage of your team's games hijacked by Madonna and Lenny Kravitz.

(7) Boston Red Sox: Back in February I wrote, "Sure, he isn't going to cost them anything, but can the BoSox brass seriously expect Bartolo Colon to give them as many as two quality starts between now and Curt Schilling's return?" Sure enough, he gave them exactly two quality starts this spring en route to a 4-2 record with a 4.09 ERA. Schilling, meanwhile, is DL'd for at least the '08 season if not for the rest of his life.

(6) Bill Bavasi: In the context of criticizing a couple of managers, I gave the Mariners GM a thumbs-up for cancelling the post-game buffet and making players stand at their lockers after a loss to speak with reporters. I should have been shredding him for assembling a roster so anemic that everyone in the organization has been instructed to take iron supplements retroactive to 2002.

(5) Major League Soccer: I chided the league last month for not clamping down on bad fan behavior, specifically for throwing objects on the field. In retrospect, I should have congratulated MLS for actually having fans considering nearly a quarter of the loop's games (25 of 104) this season have ended in ties.

(4) The Williams sisters: Lamenting the terrible showing by Americans at the French Open, I opined. "Andy Roddick's fine, but the nation's tennis fans yearn for another Sampras, Agassi or anyone named Williams, provided she's focused on tennis instead of outside distractions." Soooooo, John, how'd the whole Wimbledon thing work out over the weekend?

(3) ESPN: I picked on the Bristol boys for hiring Bobby Knight as a college basketball analyst despite his history of sparring with the media. Knight turned out to be the best studio analyst they had for the NCAA Tournament.

(2) C.C. Sabathia: I picked on the portly pitcher on May 11 while pointing out that Manchester United loses money in part because the team is paying 14.25 percent in interest on a portion of the loan Malcolm Glazer took out to buy Man U. "If you've got the scratch to take a controlling interest of a business this large, shouldn't you have met someone somewhere along the way who could have fronted the money at a rate that couldn't be confused for C.C. Sabathia's ERA?" Here's C.C.'s stat line since then: 3-3 record, but a stellar 2.79 ERA.

(1) The Boston Celtics: Like many other people, I wasn't impressed with how the Celts handled the early stages of the NBA playoffs. "The Celtics walked away from their second-round battle with the Cleveland Cavaliers with their title ambitions still intact but performing about as convincingly as Elizabeth Berkley in 'Showgirls,'" I wrote. "I don't want to say Pistons in six is a sure bet, but I hear Steve Wynn is accepting Charles Barkley's $25K ticket on that proposition as payment in full." Can I get a do-over on that one?