This recent article describing how the Yankees fulfilled one of Billy Crystal's dream by signing him to play one spring training baseball game brings to mind:

If you could play any sport, for any team (if your sport is a team sport), what would you do and who would you play for?

For me, I would have liked to have been an Olympic athlete. I once had aspirations to compete in taekwondo, but injuries, school, etc had other plans for me.

To score the winning goal in the world cup final (football)

To compete against Don Sicilia in Taekwondo

To play for the Red Sox and hit a homer over the Green Monster.

Wow... How long have you had that dream??

Around the time that I read about your injuries...

To be on the mound in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series with a one run lead, and striking out the final batter with the bases loaded on a 3-2 pitch.

To play for the New York Yankees and win a World Series ring (beating Boston along the way)

To trade places with Billy Crystal on Thursday.

Since I'm so awful at any sport, if I was going to spend a day with the Yankees, I would want it to be during Spring Training when it doesn't count.

To have been Joe Carter in 1993.

I remember how my heart sunk at that moment. An unmitigated string of profanity escaped from my lips, the likes of which still makes my sister-in-law recoil in horror.

To win the world heavyweight title!

Even though i would only be a light-heavyweight in truth but this is a thread about dreams eh?

Ditto for me in baseball. I would add that it would be an unhittable fastball just barely within the strikezone.

In football, it would be to quarterback my team down the field with less than 2:00 trailing by 4 points, with no timeouts, in a snowstorm at Browns stadium, and throwing the winning TD pass as the clock expired with a Super Bowl berth on the line.

Walking up the 18th hole on Sunday at the Masters, with a two shot lead over Tiger. We're both on in two, so the two putt to win is strictly a formality.

We're walking side by side, both smiling, the gallery in a frenzy at the remarkable show of good will by Tiger for walking with this 48 year old upstart. Stan the Caddy on my bag.

Pizzaboy, yours wins. I would pay to see good ol Stan walking the 18th at Augusta with you.

Maybe in my baseball description I should give a little "chin music," to the hitter, ala Kramer at the Fantasy Camp.

Hey, you own the inside of that plate!

When you come to NY, I'll give you a tour of Central Park, founded by Joe Pepitone.

Phillies fan eh? Hey at least your team has made the playoffs since 1993.

Once. And it was three and out.

I'd want to catch a pass from Peyton Manning that wins the AFC championship in overtime against the Patriots.

or...

I could play CB and tackle Tom Brady and end his career in an AFC championship game we win.

It has never been more evident that Longneck is a closet Patriot fan, with a serious mancrush on Tom Brady.

No Ebbets Field??

Yes. I also wish I had Belecheat's fashion sense