Can someone please tell me the difference between a pro athlete making $8 million a year to play a game and Katie Couric making $13 million to read a teleprompter? The only reasoning I’ve gotten so far is that newscasters do it every night. But is that really enough of a difference for everyone that swears about athletes making that kind of jack to drop an “Awww, sweet little Katie’s going to read the news!”?

And even though I haven’t watched morning yack shows in years, if anyone was sitting at home believing that “I really feel like we’ve become friends” speech, I’d like to talk to ya about some land in Florida…

In other “bitter old man” news… I see that one of the regional games for the NHL this week is St. Louis at Colorado. Really? Have the Blues cracked the 30 point barrier yet this season? Not only are they awful, but in the last four months they have put on a fire sale that makes the ’98 Florida Marlins jealous. Carolina has the third best record in hockey, and one national TV appearance to show for it. And with the Rangers clinching a playoff spot, I don’t expect that to change much in the postseason, either. (Unless the Hurricanes play the Rangers, of course. Or maybe they’ll petition the league to let the Penguins bring their crappy roadshow to the playoffs, you know, like they did the draft this year.)