Phillies P Halladay a hero even in the offseason     Who knew?
Despite being outpitched by his good buddy, Chris Carpenter, in
Game 5 of the NLDS in which St. Louis upset Philadelphia 1-0,
Halladay's legend grew a bit this offseason for a heroic effort
far from the ordinary.   As word of the story leaked, various
accounts exaggerated Halladay's role in the rescue. The
Phillies' right-hander set the record straight on Tuesday.  "I
was not wrestling snakes. I was nowhere near snakes," Halladay
said. "We were just driving back. We had been fishing all day
and we were on the boat driving back and we happened to see a
guy sitting on the shore line without clothes. We couldn't talk
to him. The guides had to talk to him. They were speaking
Portuguese. He had been attacked by a snake and escaped, but it
had ripped the engine off the boat and left all his stuff out in
the middle of the river. So we picked up his stuff and drove him
back to his tribe, I guess you would call it."  So much for
Halladay diving underwater