MLB postpones games; Olympics "will somehow go on"

The Associated Press

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced today that baseball will postpone games for at least the next three days due to the recent trade of Brett Favre to the New York Jets.

"There would be no point to playing the games, because no one would know about them," Selig said. "All the TV networks are showing is Brett Favre - the news networks, the sports networks ... hell, even HGTV broke into 'Flip That House' last night for a special report."

ESPN has announced a temporary name change to EFPN - the Everything Favre Programming Network.

It is believed that fans, and even players, would stay home to watch the wall-to-wall Favre coverage.

"Last night, umpires had to end the Redsocks-Royals game after eight innings because the players were watching breaking news of the trade and refused to come out of the clubhouse," Selig said.

Organizers of the Olympic Games were worried that the news of Favre's trade would force the postponement of the event. The games will somehow go on, though, said a highly placed Olympic official.

"The games will somehow go on," said the highly placed official, who will remain anonymous because he has a name that's really, really hard to spell.

"What saved the Olympics is that Favre agreed to fly to China and light the torch for the opening ceremonies," the official said. "He told us he absolutely, definitely would be there, so we feel there is at least a 50 percent chance it will happen."