The wait is over - another freshy podcast is ready to unleash its wisdom on your sporty ears.

A few things have changed since we recorded Tuesday: Brett Favre DID send in his letter of reinstatement and will likely be headed north the complete his effort to disrupt the Packers’ training camp. Man, we want Aaron Rogers to take Green Bay to the Super Bowl and win it. Otherwise, he’ll have to go back to a much less lucrative enterprise.

Also in developing news, the IOC (those adventurous Olympic committee members) decided to heed the hypocrisy police and let Iraq compete in the games on the eve of the deadline to submit names for competition. Because if 14-year-olds can compete and promises of ‘no tampering’ can be broken by the HOST COUNTRY, then a few athletes just trying to do something positive for a war torn country might as well be allowed to participate.

Episode 127

Huddles, Tires and SMOG with The Girls!

Today The Girls are coming to you live from deep inside the HUDDLE, where Jets Coach Eric Mangini goes all beta and throws the most precious of all things, the playbook, online. The new system he is embracing, Huddle, has been deemed secure…by Harvard…which is located in Massachusetts. It’s Facebook for the NFL, only there’s but one team using it. The Jets. You get why we’re totally befuddled and amused by his willingness to tempt the devil, right? Belichick? Belichick? Is that you behind the curtain?

No matter what Barry Bonds offers to do it seems there are no takers. League minimum, prorated, and all of it donated to kids to buy tickets to games. Next thing you know he’ll be offering free clinics on how to grow your head faster than a Jersey watermelon in July. We’d pay to attend that symposium.

Do you recognize this man?

We recorded this week’s Fantoo Girls sports podcast a wee bit early, so Mark Teixera’s move to the Angels didn’t make it in. Rest assured that we have noted it and now are supremely mad that the Rays dropped Satan from their name. Could you imagine what ESPN would have done if the Angels and the Devil Rays faced off on Cloud Nine for the ALCS? Darn. Evil strikes again.

Also on the diamond we marvel at Prince Fielder’s base running. But the real question is, When is he due? And is it twins?

And then there’s the Rockies. Winning again. Will wonders never cease?

What would a podcast be without a little trip inside the mind of Brett Favre? The Girls provide you with his latest list of titles for his tell-all book, which he says he’ll release soon. Or never. Or maybe next year. If he has anything left in him to give the publishing world.

Because we can’t get away from Favre fast enough, we dope ourselves up and get on a ten speed to high tail it to Paris. Carlos Sestre somehow manages to smoke the competition in the time trial and take the yellow jersey for good. Another Spaniard wins the Tour de France, making Spain TitleCountry in our book. His win, however, was overshadowed by Riccardo Ricco’s improbable sprint, stuffed lion in hand, away from the pee cup. Oh, the drama.

Hey! Philadelphia won a Championship! And then was promptly snubbed by the local news as the network deemed the presentation of the trophy not as important as the latest house fire on a Sunday afternoon. In the words of the Ancient Booer, BOOOOOOOOO! Congrats to the Philadelphia Soul!

Welcome to Beijing!!!!

With bandana tied firmly around our faces, we brave Beijing for a little Olympic update. It’s tiny because we can’t breath, and we hate it when that happens. Maybe if we took a swim…oh, can’t do that…killer algae. But we are psyched about how skinny we look in our new LZR swim suits. So svelte! LeBron James predicts gold for the USA basketball team, cuz that works. Yay.

We wanted to take you for a spin around the Brickyard, but our tires shredded. Sorry, buddy.

And in this week’s IT HAS TO BE SAID, we wonder who Ryan Seacrest’s agent is and how he gets his client to do so much. With so little. So grab your oxygen mask, a shoe horn to get your suit on and don the rally cap…it’s time to talk sports with The Girls!

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