What's Happening!!

Good God, this part of the year drags for me. I know the playoffs are in full swing for the NFL, but when your team isn't playing it's hard to get into it. The college football season was hard to get excited for with the absence of the Huskers. So, basically football has sucked this year.

Obviously baseball was another story. It was fun this past year to kick this blog off during a season in which the team I was following won the World Series. But since the championship, the resigning of Lowell and the on again off again trade talks with Minnesota for Johan Santana there isn't much to really talk about. The stove is not hot for the Sox at this point.

CF Coco Crisp in still in Boston, more or less. I'd be surprised if he's in Spring Training wearing a Boston uniform. It's hard to gauge what the Sox can get for him and the market hasn't been responding to the prospect of Crisp. I hope Theo isn't hanging on in hopes the Twins actually bite on him for a trade because that ain't gonna happen.

Right now the starting rotation has as many as six options for the 2008 season. Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Tim Wakefield, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz are all starters. With backup catcher and full time Wakefield man-servant Doug Mirabelli back in the fold for '08 it is a clear indicator that the Sox are committed to Wake as a starter. Lester will have the edge for the fifth spot and Buchholz could find himself back in Pawtucket or in the pen for long relief duty.

Other than this, and Jim Rice narrowly missing the Hall, not much is going on in Boston. Of course, league commissioner Bud Selig and players union tzar Donald Fehr talked in front of Congress today.

Every time they show baseball players or brass in a subcommittee room on Capital Hill it reminds me of my favorite line from Mars Attacks! when the aliens take over and torch the Capital Building. The old grandma (Sylvia Sydney) of the main character laughs uncontrollably and blurts out "they blew up Congress!!" Cinematic gold.

Are tickets for the Royals on sale for opening day yet? This sucks.