Snowzilla has supporters and detractors. Maybe this should have been the QOTD:
And before dawn Tuesday, in downtown Anchorage, someone erected a small, misshapen snowman at the entrance to Anchorage City Hall: A crude mini Snowzilla brandishing a protest sign that read "Snowmen of the world unite!"
Love Snowzilla, glad I don't live in the neighborhood.
An over-hyped Super Bowl is a bit of a redundancy. A Jets-Giants Super Bowl might have raised the bar on hype. That matchup seems very unlikely now. However, a new one has taken its place. An Eli-Peyton Super Bowl, Manning on Manning, brother against brother, the last two Super Bowl MVPs, blah, blah, blah. That one could happen and even seems likely from here. The Colts and Giants are playing very well. That game, hyped like nothing before, wouldn't bother me as much and is surely preferable to a Jets-Giants Super Bowl.
Today's QOTD inspired by the New York Yankees. According to ESPN.com:
New York has committed $423.5 million in salary in the past month, with $161 million going to left-handed pitcher CC Sabathia ($23 million per over seven years) and $82.5 million to right-hander A.J. Burnett ($18.5 million per over five) last week alone.
Here we go again. The Major League Baseball Players Association, easily the most powerful union left in America, is against a salary cap. If the small market teams try to impose one or tries to pass any other measure that reigns in the free market, there's going to be a strike. Another baseball strike on the heels of the steroid scandal is probably not in anyone's best interest. Maybe the Brewers can ask for a bridge loan from the government.
Quote of the Day
Frankly, the sport might need a salary cap.
Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "In a surprise move. the Yanks have swooped in and signed Mark Teixiera"
Sorry, I'm not at all surprised. The Yankees can sign anyone they want. No one in the game can compete with them. -Rob
The Evil Empire strikes again. Oh well, we shall see what they do on the field next year. Lately they have been pretty good at serving the rest of MLB's fans some tasty guilt-free schadenfreude.
Maybe Major League Baseball will simply collapse of its own greedy weight. No, it's not likely. But I wouldn't shed a tear if I woke up in the morning and the leagues and the whole cockeyed, corrupt economic structure they've erected (on the backs of the fans) had vanished. When the weather warms up, I wouldn't have any problem finding a game to watch somewhere, and I wouldn't have to shell out a minimum of $25 bucks to do it, either.
Merry Christmas, Rob.
Thanks, Cullen. Same to you and yours.