The High Heat

You could stay home and pull your groin.

For genuine excitement, count that plenty of money on the train right in front of everybody. Go ahead! Count aloud! Start over repeatedly!

The Angels play their cards closer to their vest than anybody. No one heard not even a whisper about the Angels doing anything other than maybe bringing back Vladimir Guerrero, who might be stuck going to Baltimore now. Also: Straight out of the "No Shit? Really?" Department: Last week Milton Bradley was arrested for suspicion of communicating a threat, a felony, to a woman in L.A. Maybe he's perpetually pissed because his middle name is Obelle.

Both moves combined costs less than $8MM. Basically, the Rays swapped Crawford and Pena for Damon and Ramirez. They're saving about $20MM on two positions, but they aren't exactly the better for it unless the two aging stars put up decent numbers.

Olbermann and MSNBC part ways.

If they don't add John Mayer, then the show must be cancelled.

It might inspire them to blow their brains out, as well. I really wish he would have named the pervert before departing. The family matters beyond the rapes only compound his problems.

CDs in the car, often on repeat is what I do. I use iTunes, but mostly for burning playlists to play in the car. I don't like wearing ear buds alot and I have bad luck with vinyl, like buying (The Album) and dropping and scratching it as soon as I pulled it out. I'm sticking with the cd until it becomes too big of a hassle to find or use them.

His affliction did not go unnoticed.

I knew what you meant, even though I didn't know what you were talking about.

Maybe Jakob's next producer will be Jack Frost.

Brief profiles of these fine people.

Rockies' Carlos Gonzalez signs 7 year/$80 MM extension. A rare occurence of a player telling Scott Boras what to do, rather than the other way around.

Let's focus on these faces then. They're most important anyway.

Here's a fountain of normalcy: I sense frontal lobe issues.

New York Times story on Loughner's behavior, drug use and his participation on extremist political internet sites.

How does it come about that he legally purchased his gun after being kicked out of college for psychological reasons, including the involvement of campus police in at least one of his incidents at school?

This guy may have had only one target, but he went well beyond his goal. Many of the victims were elderly and one was 9 year old Christina-Taylor Green. She was born on 9-11-01 and was the grand daughter of former Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green. I fail to see the point in hurting anyone, let alone the most innocent. That's why it's called lunacy.

"She's 54, but she says she's 29. Ahhh..."

I stole that joke from Geechy Guy. He was on Craig Ferguson's show last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxnKwwdKT0

I was in a restaurant last night and I saw a transvestite walk into the ladies restroom. I thought to myself, "Man, you gotta have balls to do something like that."

Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven voted into the HOF. (Full results at the bottom of the link.)

My local Wilco sells Dunkin Donuts coffee and (stale) donuts.

Adam LaRoche signs with the Nationals, 2 years. Dan Uggla gets a 5 year extention from the Braves. Michael Young will be a DH/1B/Jack-of-all-positions because the Rangers are set to sign Adrian Beltre for 5 years.