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As all the teams approach the middle of August, there are still teams looking for that final push for the playoffs. The Dodgers are one of these teams; they were buyers at the trade deadline with the acquisition of Ted Lilly and they are five-and-a-half games out of first place.

ESPN’s Enrique Rojas has reported that the Los Angeles Dodgers could be in the hunt for Jose Guillen. Apparently, his role will not be a starter’s role, but he will be splitting time here and there for the Dodgers.

Jose Guillen is available as the Kansas City Royals designated him for assignment last week. There are several teams that have expressed their interest in the power hitter. Guillen could be a valuable asset to a team looking for one more bat with some pop to their lineup. 

He has been playing the designated hitter’s role with the Royals. Injuries may be a key reason why he has been slotted in that role. He plays the outfield very well with a string arm. There has been very little criticism about the manner in which he patrols the outfield.

Some teams have backed off Jose Guillen because of some red flags thrown in the air about his clubhouse persona. The Yankees were some of the big players in the Guillen sweepstakes at first before acquiring Austin Kearns. The reason could, in fact, be Guillen’s personality. 

Jon Heyman warned that contenders should keep their distance from Guillen, but it looks like the Dodgers are willing to take the risk. After all, they do have Joe Torre at the helm and he has been able to keep Manny Ramirez on the down-low recently. 

It is the Dodgers’ call in the end. They could take a risk on a person that is claimed to be worse than Milton Bradley and hope he provides good numbers or wait and see where the Adam Dunn sweepstakes go. 

The cards are on the table for Los Angeles.

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Yankee fans all around the Yankee Universe were rejoicing and celebrating Jesus Montero’s home run for Scranton Wilkes-Barre that won the game for the team in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Yankee fans on Twitter were calling for the call-up of Montero on September 1st with tweets including #JesusIsComing. But the Yankees have another player that could have more of a shot of being called up than Montero and he’s been in the major leagues before.

Kei Igawa was looking like an ace in his Triple-A start in place of Tim Redding who has left the Yankees for a Korean baseball team. Igawa was scoreless through 5.2 innings and was in control at all times.

In fact, out of all of Igawa’s pitches only 15 were balls. The rest were strikes. He struck-out seven and only allowed six hits.

A few years back, the Yankees signed Igawa to be their response to the Daisuke Matsuzaka signing in Boston. Neither one of these signings was all that great, but the Yankees looked like the biggest losers in the end. Igawa was a failure in the major leagues, but he does have one great memory with a win against the Red Sox.

When all is said and done, Igawa may have been one of the stronger pitchers in Japan. Then he became one of the weakest in New York, but a minor star in Scranton.

This could be Igawa’s start to a return to the majors and he could come as a surprise. The popular prediction is that Igawa is just catching fire, but in the majors this may only be equivalent to a spark.

The Yankees could call him up on September 1st to possibly let him make a final few appearances in pinstripes. The Yankees will probably look to get rid of him somehow, but he’s signed with the team until 2012. He is arbitration eligible after the 2011 season. There are probably only a few fans that will miss Igawa, and by few I mean a handful.

Final Note: Igawa was able to get Carlos Delgado out in the Scranton win. Delgado is considered by many to be a Canadian baseball great, but he’s past his prime. Nothing really to cheer about, just a note on another former big leaguer trying to make a come-back.

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The records keep on piling up for Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees. He entered the Yankees-Red Sox game on Sunday night tied with The Great Bambino, Babe Ruth, on the all-time career hits list. It came against a very familiar foe in the Boston Red Sox with Josh Beckett on the mound. 

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“The Other Guys” opened in theaters this past Friday starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. But the comedy film starred a very popular New York figure in Derek Jeter. 

The Yankees shortstop has been on Saturday Night Live and is engaged to actress Minka Kelly, so the acting potential is all around him. There was a lot of hype building up to his acting debut in a blockbuster, but he failed to disappoint. 

Derek Jeter has won MVP awards for Major League Baseball’s World Series and All-Star Game, respectively. With his role as himself and as a bum, Jeter could add an Oscar to his set of awards. 

In the film, Mark Wahlberg’s cop character is called “The Yankee Clipper”, because of an incident where he shoots Derek Jeter in the dugout steps before a World Series game. Derek Jeter is on the ground and fans believe that Wahlberg caused them a championship. 

Jeter’s funnier scene occurs years later when Wahlberg and Jeter meet at Nathan’s in Coney Island. Jeter is dressed as a bum and is on the streets due to the shooting that occurred years prior. When Derek Jeter is dressed as a bum, the audience bursts into tears of laughter as now there is a comedic Jeter on the screen alongside a hilarious Will Ferrell. 

MTV recently revealed that Adam McKay, one of the film’s leading producers, was surprised with how prepared Jeter was for his role. The filming occurred not too long after the World Series and many believed that the Yankee Captain would be partying it up, but instead he was ready for his next job with his lines prepared. 

“The Other Guys” has the audience in tears even before the Derek Jeter scenes. It is a hilarious movie that draws just about the same praise and comedy glory of Will Ferrell’s “Step Brothers.”

It is definitely a must-see flick this summer and New York fans will gladly enjoy the acting of their very own Derek Jeter. 

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Twitter is an easy way to connect with celebrities, family, and friends. Sports stars are among those that you can connect with on Twitter. Sometimes you can ask actual athletes on what is going on in their lives or what it is like playing a specific team.

Then there are cases where you want to speak to the real athlete, but instead you are faced with the fake athlete. Fake athletes and sports figures provide some of the best tweets. Most times they are funny.

Here are some of the funniest accounts.

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The Yankees made it one of their priorities to add a reliever to the team at the trade deadline. Octavio Dotel of the Pirates has been on fire this season. There was speculation that the Yankees may have been in on Dotel earlier in the season but that has all fallen apart.

The Yankees considered him a bad addition to the clubhouse, when he was with the team in 2006. The Yankees have a great atmosphere in the clubhouse with people like Burnett and Swisher. Bringing in a grumpy player like Dotel will only make things worse. It only takes one bad apple to spoil a bunch and the Yankees do not want that.

Originally, the Yankees’ No. 1 option was Joakim Soria of the Kansas City Royals, but he is reportedly not available. The Royals will be holding onto him and hope to try and get rid of a former Yankee reliever, Kyle Farnsworth.

The latest news is that the Yankees are on the verge of obtaining their reliever. This time, it will be former Cubs standout and Indians closer Kerry Wood. Buster Onley has tweeted that Kerry Wood could soon be joining the Yankees.

This rumor was also confirmed by the New York Post’s Joel Sherman. He believes that this will definitely provide a safety net for Joba Chamberlain. Likewise is believed by other Major League Baseball scouts.

Kevin Davidoff has assured that Kerry Wood will be a Yankee. He also notes that this is the end of the Yankees Trade Deadline shopping.

Update: The Indians will cover a significant portion of Wood’s deal according to Joel Sherman.

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The 2010 MB Trade Deadline has arrived, and all signs were pointing that no really big move was going to be made ever since the Cliff Lee trade fell through. But Brian Cashman and the Yankees front office made a move that would have the Boss proud.

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Former New York Yankees manager, Joe Torre, will be reuniting with one of his former pitchers. Ted Lilly is reportedly on his way to the Los Angeles Dodgers from the Chicago Cubs. The Los Angeles Dodgers are buyers at the trade deadline as they have just completed a deal with the Chicago Cubs to try for a playoff push. Here is the outline of the deal. 

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More sad news arrives for the New York Yankees as fans will never be able to see Jon Weber don the Yankee pinstripes at Yankee Stadium. This comes after the sad news of the passing of George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard. 

Weber was at the center of the Yankee Spring Training story-lines as fans were hoping this man’s journey have a happy ending. He was arrived to the Yankees camp at 5’10”, 190 pounds, and with hopes as high as Mount Everest. He donned the No. 79 for the Yankees, but his odds of even making the team on Opening Day were higher than that. 

At one point during Spring Training, fans were cheering this old rookie on as he was leading the team in batting average. Fantasy baseball freaks were still not excited at all by these numbers, because what it came down to was that Weber was a journeyman in the minor leagues.

He spent 11 years in the minor leagues with teams from the Toledo Mudhens to the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees.  This Yankee stint could have put the final touches on his career and finally found him a home in the major leagues.

That unfortunately will not come to be as Jon Weber has decided to walk off into the sunset and call it quits. Weber played for the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees for the first two months of the season and has since come to the decision of retirement. This is the latest according to the SWB Yankees Blog and Donnie Collins on Twitter.  

Sad to say, Bleacher Creatures and Modell’s will not be stocking high on their “Weber 79” jerseys. 

Bleacher Report and the New York Yankee fans wish Weber the best of luck on his future endeavors. 

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“They got in the way!” or “I didn’t know it was there” are some of the best excuses that have been given for accidental bird murders. Things can sometimes get out of hand and lead to PETA coming after you or being suspended by the league.

But C’mon! Most of the time the excuses are true and it was the bird’s fault.

Bleacher Report examines some of the oddest and most peculiar instances where a bird was not lucky in the end.

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