My all time favorite players that never played for a team I root for.

Ken Griffey Jr.-When I was a little kid in the summer, I could be found wandering around my back yard with a backwards hat on and a fake magnetic earring. I tried to learn to hit left handed like Junior, but gave up after about a week. To put it simply, he is what made baseball cool to me. I only saw him play in person once, and by that time his famous sweet and effortless swing had become slower than a blind turtle. It didn't matter. 630 home runs, and there would have been many more if not for all the injuries while he wasted his career with the reds. I'll always remember him as a mariner, hitting balls in to the upper deck of the kingdome and leaping up like superman to make a catch at the wall.

Allen Iverson-As Iverson gets set to start a career in Turkey, it's easy to forget that in his prime he was one of the most exciting basketball players to ever step on the hard wood. He's also a hall of famer. If I had a time machine, I would pay a decent sum of money to be able to go back to 2001 and watch AI do his thing in Philly. One of the all time great scorers in NBA history.

Barry Sanders-Some of my earliest memories of watching football are Thanksgiving afternoons watching Barry Sanders find his way out of the arms of would be tacklers like a magician. Barry Sanders is the greatest running back of all time. The thing I admire most about him is that when he retired, it wasn't bullshit. He left and didn't come back. He didn't join the media or come back to play a year later. He would have broken the all time rushing record easily had he not retired early, but he had too much respect for the game.

Vladimir Guerrero-When I was a kid and I got Saturday and Sunday afternoon Phillies games on channel 15 in my parents bedroom, I was always hoping they were playing the Expos so I could watch Vlad. No matter how awful of a pitch he swung at, he always seemed to hit it hard. When he signed with the Angels I made it a point to try to go see them once a year so I could watch him play. He killed the Yankees in the 2005 ALDS, but I got over it eventually. If there was one guy I could put in pinstripes for just one season, this would be the guy.

Kurt Warner-Loved watching the 99 Rams play. He broke my heart twice when he beat the Eagles in the 01 and 08 NFC Championship games, but a class act and a hall of famer. He made it look easy out there. In the 2008 NFC title game, the Eagles game back from 3 possessions down to take an improbable lead in the 4th quarter. With 8 minutes left, I turned to my dad and said "I have no doubt Warner will drive them down the field here." Sure enough, he did. And that led to me not talking to anyone in my house for 5 days. Thanks Kurt.