Super Bowl XLIV

Who I would like to see:

New Orleans Saints vs. New York Jets

Who we will probably see:

Minnesota Vikings vs. Indianapolis Colts

Happy New Year

Hey, I know it's the 11th of January, but I'd forgotten all about this blog site, the busyness of the season I suppose.

There's not much new to report on this end.

The New England Patriots went down in the first round of the playoffs against the Baltimore Ravens. It was eerily similar to the Red Sox demise in the ALDS last year. There were pundits choosing the New England teams to win using all sorts of seemingly reasoned rationale, but their opponents were just too much for them.

We are stuck in the middle of frigid January, which is perhaps the worst month to live through in these parts. This is the utter dungeon of winter, and there's not a whole lot to look forward to, except for spring in a couple of months, of course.

Well, at least pitchers and catchers will be reporting in a little over a month.

Until then, stay warm.

Jason Bay to sign with Mets

WFAN of New York is reporting that Jason Bay, former left fielder for the Boston Red Sox will sign with the New York Mets. Bay rejected the 4 year/$60 million offer made by the Sox during the season with interest in exploring the free agent market.

Unfortunately for Bay, a hot market never really developed in the off-season and latest reports were that the Mets had offered him 4 years/$65 million. The Red Sox, unable to wait for Bay to decide, had already signed Mike Cameron leaving Bay few options.

Jason Bay was a well-liked and respected player in Boston. He was a power hitter who had a tendency to strike out frequently. Even so, he still hammered over 30 home runs and over 110 RBIs last year. More importantly, perhaps, was that he seamlessly moved into the position left vacant by the departure of Manny Ramirez in 2008.

I wish Bay well in New York. He seemed a decent fellow, very professional in his ethic and demeanor. Good luck, Jason Bay. You'll need it at CitiField.

For what it's worth....

Throughout the day, I get these great ideas for blog entries. Or at least I think they are great. They seem great to me, but I suppose they wouldn't necessarily appeal to everyone.

Unfortunately, when I get the time to sit down and focus on making a blog entry, either the idea has flown away or the steam necessary to run the writing engine has cooled down.

Sometimes I think I overthink what I want to write which leads to the paralysis of analysis (which is a phrase I picked up from my days in Amway over 15 years ago). And sometimes I only have a shred of an idea which I don't take time to think out at all.

The upside to all this is this: without an idea to develop, my blog entries can be shorter.

Much shorter.

And they won't take as much time, effort or discipline to carry out.

My definition of Chicago-style politics

If you can't persuade, then "persuade."

Spam

Please note that if you plan on leaving spam messages on my blog, they will be deleted. I receive emails whenever a comment is left, so I know when it happens.

So, really, don't waste your time.

Scutaro Signing

I found this post on Boston.com and thought it funny. So I'm reposting it here:

redroverredrover wrote: Yikes. The guy had one good year and now he's our starting SS? Sounds like the next Julio Lugo to me. However, I'm glad we've got another player to add to the list of silliest Red Sox names, joining the likes of:

Heathcliff Slocumb
Arquimedez Pozo
Coco Crisp
Izzy Alcantara
Nomar Garciaparra
Gar Finnvold

Please add to this list. I know I'm missing some gems.

Can we get some clarity?

There's a common thought in the world of sports news pundits.

It is this: Defense wins games.

I beg to differ.

Defense, technically, prevents the other team from winning the game. If there's good defense, but little to no offense, then there's often no win for that team.

Occasionally, the defense will score points. Take, for instance, an intercepted pass in the NFL which is then run for a touchdown. But in this case, the defense has become offense because defense, by its very nature, does not score points. It tries to prevent the other team from scoring points.

'Nuff said.

Bah

So the Yankees won #27.

Good for them. Lousy for everyone else.

I don't care for the Yankees. I think it's genetic. I don't hate the players - I don't even know them. You should never hate someone you don't know due to lack of justifiable cause. But I don't like them, will always root against them.

I tend to think their fans are obnoxious. And, yes, they probably say the same thing about Red Sox fans. Their gloating makes me want to block their news feeds on Facebook. I am not a fan of gloating.

So the Yankees won #27.

From what everyone is saying, it sounds like they think that the team as it is currently comprised won all 27 World Series. But that can't be right.

It has been 9 years since their last WS victory. Back then, their starting roster looked like this:

Lineup
Jorge Posada*
Tino Martinez
Chuck Knoblauch
Scott Brosius
Derek Jeter*
Ricky Ledee
Bernie Williams
Paul O'Neill
Shane Spencer

Starting Pitchers
Roger Clemens
David Cone
Orlando Hernandez
Denny Neagle
Andy Pettitte*

Bullpen
Randy Choate
Jason Grimsley
Jeff Nelson
Mike Stanton
Mariano Rivera*

Joe Torre was managing and George Steinbrenner was micromanaging.

So, while the Yankees NAME has won 27 championships, the current Yankees TEAM has only won one. I wouldn't call the current team a dynasty. Nope, not at all.

The General Manager Meetings start Monday in Chicago.

Predictions

Angels over Red Sox in 4.
Yankees over Twins in 4.
Cardinals over Dodgers in 5.
Phillies over Rockies in 3.

Yankees/Cardinals World Series.

Cardinals win WS.

Say What?

During one of the morning sports flashes on our local sports news/talk radio stations, the announcer for national news said that Tom & Gisele Brady (Bundchen) have been served a lawsuit for $1 million for "negligently hiring" a security team for their wedding. Apparently, and allegedly, one or more of the security team fired at paparazzi during a post-wedding party in Costa Rica.

None of the soul-stealing sleeze weasels were hit, but it was, of course, a very traumatic experience for them which caused "mental harm."

Now, please look at the basis of the lawsuit in the first paragraph.

Negligently hiring.

Think about that for a minute.

Negligently hiring.

So, according to the lawsuit, Tom & Gisele Brady (Bundchen) were negligent when they hired a security team to make their nuptials and post-nuptial celebration as private as possible.

In a perfect world, a judge would look at this for one second and toss it out with some sort of reprimand for the "injurees" seeking a nice pay day.

But given some of the decisions handed down by those who wear the robe over the last fifty or so years, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see this go through.

What a country!

Beware Clampi.. the new Trojan

Cyber criminals have created a highly sophisticated Trojan virus that steals online banking log-in details from infected computers.

The Clampi virus, which is spreading rapidly across hundreds of thousands of computers in Britain and the United States, infects computers when users visit websites that host a malicious code.

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