What a day for television! Yet another reason why every day should be a holiday. Aside from the Law & Order marathon on TNT, helping to feed my latest televised addiction, we get the HBO documentary on the 1980 US Olympic hockey team (an EXCELLENT program, by the way), and Brewsters Millions and White Men Can’t Jump on Comedy Central. I’m not even that big on White Men Can’t Jump anymore, but it can’t be left out of that lineup. And while I was watching all of this, not only did I pick up on Det. Briscoe and the manager of the Hackensack Bulls being the same guy, but I also picked out Scarface from “Half Baked” as a perp on one of the Law & Order episodes. I felt so accomplished!
The A-Rod to Hell trade was finalized today… I know I hashed, rehashed and overhashed it the other day, but this email to my friend James about the trade sums it up even more, I think:
Its going to suck to have that consistent of a bat and glove out of the mix, but Soriano has shown some pop, though I haven’t paid all that close attention to him lately. I just hate hate hate that ARod went to the Yankees. I hated the talk about him going to Boston, but this is just silly. I know it was all the Rangers doing in the first place jacking the salary up, but if they didn’t do it, SOME team was going to. Now the Yankees will have what, 4 or 5 players making more than the PAYROLLS of 2/3 of the teams? Baseball is so out of control it isn’t funny. Even Texas trying to build a team with ARod’s sick paycheck, and giving Chan Ho “Out of the” Park more yen than he can shake a chopstick at (that was REALLY an unnecessary use of Asian sterotypes, wasn’t it?) is ridiculous. And it will continue to get worse, and then when the next CBA is up, the players will complain that they can’t support their families, and their drug habits, and they’re not getting enough from their shoe deals, and the game will take another huge step back.
Of course, bottom line for 2004 is now that the Rangers have waited until 5 days before Spring Training to free up salary space for DESPERATELY needed pitching, who can they get? Hell, even Ricky Bottalico’s gone!
Blue Jackets-Predators round two is tonight. Its actually about round 20, but this will be the first time they meet since things got REALLY ugly a couple weeks ago. Should be fun, hide the children.