Ba, this awful column made me think about our earlier A-Rod discussion. Every single one of the guys Reilly wants to give a replacement MVP to looks suspicious to me. Piazza's legendary back acne is in the news today. And A-Rod, until a few weeks ago, was the clean guy who would clean up the record books and give baseball its good name back. So it might not be a good idea to go looking for replacement saviors. They might not exist. Terrible premise, terribly executed. Reilly is lame.

Quoted: Step up here, Mike Piazza. The late Ken Caminiti of the San Diego Padres stole your 1996 NL MVP, then admitted he was into more juice than Jack LaLanne. Yes, it's 13 years late, but the nameplate is new! And here's yours from 2001, Luis Gonzalez, after you finished behind The Barry Bonds Pharmacy. We won't even mention the home run title you would've won that year.