Well, the All-Star Game is over (it was so frickin’ boring that MVP was awarded to Carl Crawford for a catch), and we all know what that means. Tomorrow, the second half of baseball season begins. What’s more, football season will soon be upon us. Sadly, that signifies that we’re coming to the end of yet another round of, “Who wants to be a retiree-ionaire?”

The longevity of this phenomenon can be largely attributed, of course, to the gumption of one man, and that would be Fav-ruh. The gift that keeps on retiring.

With training camp approaching, Fav-ruh recently told the Associated Press that he’d give the Vikings his decision by July 30. The deciding factor is going to be whether or not he he’s fully recovered from recent surgery on his bicep tendon. Brett claims that he feels ready. That he has the velocity, the power, the strength. So what, then, is the problem? Something intangible. Complicated. In order to help us better understand, Fav-ruh helps out with a golf analogy.  He likens himself to an injured Tiger Woods:

“He goes out and hits a 2 iron and he thinks it will go the normal distance it has all his life, then all of a sudden it’s 13 yards short, and he says, ‘I don’t know why that is because everything felt perfect,’ so that’s what I have to get through.”

So, it’s sort of like if he used to be able to throw the football around 90 yards, but now he’s a few yards short and he doesn’t get it because he thought everything was fine. Except he said it with a golf analogy, which made it make more sense.

In Fav-ruh’s analogy, of course, Tiger doesn’t realize that he’s short 13 yards until he’s actually on the course.  It sort of seems like he couldn’t.  So, now, truth be told, I’m actually a little bit confused. Is the issue one that Brett is or isn’t going to be able to assess in advance?  For someone so seemingly dense, he has the uncanny capacity to befuddle me to the point of paralysis.

Brett’s been working out with the Oak Grove High School football team three times a week all summer. (That sounds just about right.)  He plans to up the ante by adding a Sunday routine into the mix.

For those of you who are golfers, that would be like if Tiger Woods typically went to the driving range three times a week (with a high school golf team), and then he started going to the driving range on Sundays as well.

Hope that clears things up for you.