Defensemen Dan Girardi is an interesting option however

Defensemen Dan Girardi is an interesting option, however.Girardi is set to be an RFA at the end of the year, and honestly I'm not sure if he'll be brought back. "I just hope the aspect of us being in the playoff race is a big thing. I hope I'll stay here and stay for a long time."I love the way Prospal plays, but let's face it, he is aging and is going to want a significant raise over the peanuts he's making this year. Getting something of value even if it's a draft pick or two for him now, would be a much smarter option than holding onto him hoping that he'll sign for close to what he's making this year.After Prospal, there aren't too many options for the Rangers to ship off. However, Prospal has made it no secret that he wants to stay in New York, and any chance the Rangers have of signing him next season, might lie in the balance should Sather pull the trigger."I hope I don't have to think about anything like that," Prospal told Arthur Staple of Newsday. Since Sather is a mastermind when it comes to trades (ahem, Jagr for Anson Carter, Gomez this past offseason, and Pavel Bure for Igor Ulanov), it wouldn't surprise me to see Prospal get a return of a high prospect or a first rounder. However, Vinny Prospal is the smartest option for Sather to move.

Prospal has been tallying up a nice season so far in his first year with the Rangers. With 14 goals, 33 assists, and an expiring contract at season's end, he's lip-licking good for teams looking to bolster their offense. The kids need to play hard minutes at the NHL level if we're ever going to see what they can do.One step in this direction is to trade every player that would help us with this process. Sather started this by moving Christopher Higgins and Ales Kotalik last month. Higgins wasn't as much of a concern since he was slated to be a free agent at season's end, but shedding Kotalik and his remaining two years was key.Trading your second-leading scorer while battling for a playoff spot, isn't usually the gameplan for the trade deadline. Not completely stripping the team of everything, but staying competitive while allowing the younger players to accumulate experience. Okay, it's time to snap back to reality and dust off the Olympic break and jump back into the New York Rangers.

Which, for those of you that don't follow hockey, is like being married to Jessica Alba for two weeks, only to then be forced to come home and go back to your wife, while she's sitting on the couch eating a pint of Haagan Dazs watching One Life to Live...So, now that we're done with that two-week fantasy that was the Olympics, it's time to get down to business.The trade deadline is just two days away, and quite frankly, it might be a boring one for the Rangers. In a perfect world, GM Glen Sather would trade away just about everything he could to stockpile for the future. But this isn't a perfect world, it's Sather's world, and most likely he'll bring in some spare parts to push for a bottom spot in the playoff race, while exiting within the first two rounds.Like I said in an earlier article, the Rangers need to begin a semi-rebuilding process. In the meantime, who are your favorites? And do you hate any of mine? This article is also featured on South of Shea. The mandate had been awarded before the approach.Cenkos declined to provide any further information.(Additional reporting by Cecilia Valente; Editing by Greg Mahlich).

Pulling from players across generations, I plan to build a 25-man squad that, well, makes me happy. You'll notice the list is light on pre-1985 Mets which is mostly because I haven't been a fan of the team for much longer than that. Even learning the history of the team cannot give me the proper appreciation of those guys that's needed to make them my favorite players.Without further ado, here is the list:C Gary Carter1B Keith Hernandez2B Edgardo AlfonzoSS Jose Reyes3B David WrightLF Mookie WilsonCF Carlos BeltranRF Darryl StrawberryBench: C Mike Piazza, OF Lenny Dykstra, OF Cliff Floyd, IF Howard Johnson, IF John OlerudSP: Tom Seaver, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, David Cone, Al Leiter, Johan SantanaLR: Brett Saberhagen, Frank ViolaRP: Nolan Ryan, Roger McDowell, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Armando BenitezMore on each individual player (or groups of players) as we enter this season. Over the next couple of weeks or so, I plan to write up a full report on my all-time favorite Mets team.

 Ben Hogan needed to win golf tournaments in order to climb his way out of the poor house.When Jack Nicklaus first started out, he needed to win golf tournaments to support his young family. Otherwise, it was back to work at his father?s local pharmacy. 3 when he decided lay up on the par-five 18th hole while trailing Ben Crane by just one stroke during the final round of the 2010 Farmers Insurance Open.Despite having just 246 yards to the green?a distance Sim had covered with a 2-iron a few holes earlier?Sim decided not to take any chances.  He laid up, secured the biggest single pay day of his career, and took a large step towards obtaining his 2011 tour card   Tim Clark and Bubba Watson also chose option No. 3, laid up, secured a $648,000 pay day, and can rest easy in knowing that his job will be secure through the 2011 PGA Tour season   Michael Sim also chose option No.  Fowler, who was trailing by one stroke at the time, could have easily reached the par-five 15th in two with nothing more than a four-iron yesterday afternoon.However, if he missed the tight island green, his earnings could have gone from $648,000 to less than $240,000.Last year, the 125th-ranked player (last player to secure a 2010 tour card without having to attend Q-School) on the tour?s money list earned $662,683.Fowler opted for choice No.