Game Over?

This might just be the end game for John McCain. Ever hesitant to acknowledge polls and mindful that John Zogby is 0 for this 2 in election predictions, it's pretty hard to argue with his numbers.

It's Alive ...

Sox win.  I went to bed.  Didn't see it.  Regretting the decision.

And this is really cool:

Dual role for Maddux?

The San Diego Padres have talked to Greg Maddux about of becoming a player-coach in the organization, general manager Kevin Towers said Thursday.

Pete Rose was the last player-manager in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1986.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre was a player-manager with the New York Mets in 1977.

Yet Towers anticipates that Maddux might retire instead.

Maddux, 42, whose 355 victories are the eighth-most in baseball history, has yet to make an announcement.

From USA Today

Where there's smoke...

... there is fire.

And possibly a bad omen for the Sox?

Torn...

....between rooting for the Rays because of this cool bit of wisdom...

and the Sox because my already harried mental state due to the Mets continuing ability to fail me will not allow a Phillies' championship without catastrophic results for both myself and those around me.

Such was the reaction on the first day of spring training when Maddon told his players that the slogan for the season would be 9 = 8. The room, full of furrowed brows, figured this just another oddity from Maddon, a fine-wine-drinking, good-book-reading Renaissance man in a baseball uniform.

“I like to be esoteric,” he said.


This however, makes me want to be Joe Maddon.

Money does not a ring make ...

Did you know...

That of the 13 highest paid players in Major League Baseball this year, only 3 made the playoffs:

1) Manny

2) Torii Hunter 

and 3) the Big Z

What does this mean? 

I have no idea.