SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS

***WELCOME BACK,VOD***
Apparently the inclement Central NY weather has forced our monetary & political watchdog back into the fray where he belongs. Picasner admits being bored reading about the financial prizefights happening in NY and therefore, does not have the patience or wit to comment as eruditely as Vod. Picasner is glad someone is watching

***SNIPPETS AND COMMENTS***
Barry Bonds is fighting to keep his former mistress from testifying at his perjury trial. I've heard that taking steroids can enlarge your head and...well, I'm not sure where this is going.

David Eckstein has signed for one year at $850,000. After all the talk about the $160+ million salaries, this number seems unreal. Before we feel too bad, however, remember that's still about $9000 a week in take home pay. That should be able to keep his family in hot dogs.

One sports writer claims the Red Sox has the deepest pitching staff in baseball. Possibly, but there are a few questions marks: Beckett, who had trouble getting people out last year, two free agents coming off surgery, a 42-year old knuckleballer, who may be the most reliable pitcher on the staff, and finally, Diasuke Matsuzaka. He may be the first pitcher in history to win 18 games while AVERAGING 10 walks per game. He wins, but he's a walking (no pun intended) heart attack.

Yay! As Vod has pointed out, playoff games will be played to completion. Thank God Selig woke up to the obvious. It has also been decided that the site of playoff games needed to determine the post-season participants will be decided by head-to-head results rather than a coin toss. Wow! Welcome to the 21st century.

We still need one more correction, Bud. The All-Star game should have NOTHING to do with the home field advantage of the World Series. NOTHING, do you hear me. If you don't like the old way, alternating home field advantage, then use the overall record of inter-league play. Give that system a little more credibility and incentive and leave the exhibition that's called the All-Star game alone.

For you Shelley Duncan fans (should there be any), he has cleared waivers and has been assigned to Scranton-Wilkes Barre (permanently?).

Doug Mientkiewicz is still available and Annie-O still has her hopes up. She has been writing to Brian Cashman on a daily basis. Seems he won't take her calls anymore.