Quick thoughts for today

Borrowing the format from K-Rock's quirky and informative blog, here are few things for today:

1) Go pound sand, T.O. I'm sick of media saturation of your stupid antics, and I'm sick of people having to weigh talent against a locker room cancer when the talent has a $50 million dollar contract to play a game. Your apologies ring hollow to me and to the Eagles. Good riddance.

2) With GM meetings starting yesterday, the hot stove season has officially begun. It's the only sports-related thing I pay attention to in the winter (besides the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, NCAA basketball, the Chicago Bulls, silly season golf, and the Winter Olympics). It looks to be a seller's market yet again, but the Cubs need to buy. They solidified the bench by re-signing Neifi for two more years, but I don't think he'll be on the field every day next year no matter where Nomar lands. I don't know how to turn the Cubs into a contender, but here is my free agent Christmas list for the Cubs:

1) Johnny Damon
2) Rafael Furcal
3) Juan Pierre
4) AJ Burnett/Kevin Millwood
5) A power-hitting corner outfielder

You have to think that if we get 1) or 3), Murton will start in left next year because we won't get another stud OF. If we get 2), Cedeno goes to second and we trade Walker for an outfielder or bullpen help. It remains to be seen how we will do this off-season, but Hendry has about $30 million to spend and I think we'll see some productive imports this year.

3) Your uppence shall come, Wal-Mart. Actually, it probably won't, but I don't like you.

4) Lawyers for Saddam Hussein are becoming an endangered species these days. Whoever is knocking these guys off: if you are doing this as a statement for representing such an awful dictator, stop. The more lawyers you kill, the longer his trial lasts, and the less time he spends in a gulag. And it's not like the tribunal is eventually going to run out of lawyers. Take it from me: there are more than enough of us.

5) Watch the Colbert Report. On rare occasion the jokes fall flat, but this is a hilarious show. His monologues and obnoxious interviewing style is great. "Musk up America, because I'm going to truth you. All. Night. Long."

6) Peaceable Families of Madison, WI: Hide the women and children and board up your houses. Although our traditional Madison Road Trip group is missing crucial members BigBro, WhiteBrent, and Hansel, we've added LongMan, Dolph, Blando, Loyd (Medium), Loyd (Small), Hard, and we'll be led by chairman and 6-year Madison Road Trip veteran K-Rock. It's going to be a formidable group. If you are in Madison and would like to host a large group of good-natured drunks, have all manner of inappropriate conversations and interactions, and have medium to serious structural damage inflicted on your place of residence, by all means, post a comment here or email the Offering. Our schedule is getting pretty full but we're always happy to stop by and spread our message of happiness and double shots of tequila.

More soon.
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