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These players could surprise you this postseason

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, April 24, 2008

DETROIT -- They're like the guys who used to show up in your favorite movies, whether as the next-door neighbor, the father-in-law, the owner of the bar or the mayor of Mystery, Alaska. Variously, they're called role players, or character or supporting actors. Sometimes, they steal the scene or the show. And if that happens often enough, they no longer toil in relative obscurity. I'm thinking of, say, Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld" and should have won at least two Emmys. And t ...

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