This past week is my least favorite week of  the year.  It’s a sports dead zone.  Baseball is on the All Star Break and MLB doesn’t want teams announcing trades and it is still a couple of weeks from the trade deadline anyway so there aren’t too many deals in the works yet.  Football is still a few weeks away from starting training camp.  Basketball has ended and even the draft has already been held.  I don’t like hockey but even that is over as well as their draft.  There is just nothing going on for sports fans.

Therefore, we get things like this making the rounds amongst sports fans.  While amazing, it’s pretty sad when the sports highlight of the day is Kobayashi successfully completing the gallon of milk chug challenge:

I would never even consider attempting to drink an entire gallon of milk in one chug.  I’m just wondering if there is anything that Kobayashi or Joey Chestnut eat or drink just a single serving of?  But again, as amazing as that is, is it a sport?  Does it qualify as sports news?  I don’t know.

The other gif making the rounds today involves NFL star defensive end, JJ Watt, of the Houston Texans doing a standing box jump of 59.5 inches.  JJ Watt is just under 300 pounds.  And from a standing position, he jumped onto of a box that was 5 feet tall.  WHAT?  Well here is the proof:

Again…that is amazing.  But when that is what people are talking about, you know it is a dead time in the sports world.  Forget PEDs, check that man for Flubber on his shoes.

The only other thing worth mentioning today is the Matt Garza Trade Watch 2013 Edition.  It seems that the national writers and local Chicago writers keep saying “today is the day” or “deal is getting close” but then nothing.  Yesterday’s rumors had the Rangers ready to give up 2 pitchers and a position player to obtain Garza and made it sound like it was hours from being finalized.  Then the tide turned towards the Rangers balking at the asking price and considering to go with a Plan B.  The Red Sox just had another setback with Clay Buchholtz and the Cubs regime of Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and Jason MacLeod is much more familiar with the Red Sox system than they are the Rangers’.  Perhaps they are waiting and hoping that the Red Sox come to them with an offer before finally taking whatever the best offer is that Texas makes.  Garza is definitely the top starting pitcher available at the deadline so the Cubs will hopefully get a good haul for him no matter where they send him.