Ten Fearless Predictions for 2010

1. The Phillies will trade staff members, vintage World Series memorabilia from 2008, and the only three prospects they still have left to the Seattle Mariners for Cliff Lee.

2. Tiger Woods will appear on ABC's The Bachelor so he can date 15 girls at once

3. The Detroit Lions will not win the Superbowl on Sunday, February 7th

4. Lebron James will choose to play football at USC instead of taking a contract extension with the Cavaliers because USC offered him more money and cars.

5. You will rip up your bracket by the end of the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament in March

6. Boise State will beat TCU in the Fiesta Bowl, but when their running back scores the game-winning touchdown, he'll get confused and propose to the mascot.

7. George Steinbrenner will fire Joe Girardi in March when the Yankees lose to an inferior team in Spring Training

8. Tim Tebow will either cry when drafted by a bad team early in the NFL draft, or cry when players not as good-looking as him get drafted ahead of him.

9. The Indianapolis Colts will rest their starters in the first half of the Superbowl because the 4th quarter is when the game will be decided anyway, so why risk injury in the first three?

10. Michael Phelps will petition the International Olympic Committee to introduce swimming in a frozen lake as an Olympic sport so he can participate in the Vancouver Olympics.

Phillies Cancel Minor League Affiliates Due to Lack of Players

With the Phillies trading half their prospects for Cliff Lee and trading the other half of the farm system with Cliff Lee to Seattle and Toronto to get Roy Halladay, they have ran out of players to field teams next year. Rather than rushing low-level players to field one team at the AAA level, the Phillies will play intersquad games to keep the players healthy and active.

However, the Phillies will not invite scouts to view the intersquad scrimmages so other teams will have a hard time judging the talent of the Phillie prospects when they want to dump overpaid veterans to the Phillies to clear salary space. The Phillies hope to sign lots of Dominicans next year so they can once again play minor league baseball in 2011.