Wow, only two posts this week? I have to apologize for slipping a bit, been a busy one. Anyway, here's your belated Sport' Spitting Images for this week: former Sox great Nomar Garciaparra and actor Milo "I have the weirdest last name in the industry" Ventimiglia. I still may have spelled that wrong in spite of trying extra hard to get it right.

Anyway, Nomar needs no introduction around these parts, but allow me to give him one anyway. For the better part of a decade, NOMAAAAAH appeared to be well on his way to becoming one of the greatest legends in the history of Boston sports. He challenged both A-Rod and Jeter in their primes as the best shortstop in all of baseball and was one the only players to legitimately challenge the .400 barrier in the past 15 years (along with Bonds, Ichiro and Helton).

But then everything went awry in 2004. He started pouting and acting like a diva, forcing a trade to the Cubs that resulted in the Sox winning the World Series. He certainly was a little bitch all that time, but I'll always have a spot in my heart for Mia's husband. He was one of the most entertaining athletes to watch back in the day, and had his production remained consistent, we may have seen his number 5 adorning the right field overhang on day. But now he plays for the A's. These things just happen sometimes.

As for Ventimiglia, all I've ever seen him in is 'Heroes' and 'Rocky Balboa.' The latter sucked and you can't really hinge your opinion on the dude's entire career on one movie that missed the mark, so it's a good thing 'Heroes' is a pretty decent show or I would have written this guy off long ago. Most impressively, he was tagging Hayden Panettiere in spite of being like 12 years older than her. Well done. Plus, he kinda looks like Nomar, minus the gross, overgrown shnoz. Hey, if Brad Pitt is eligible to play Billy Beane in a movie, you could do a lot worse trying to find a likeness for Nomar than Rocky's only son.