I'm doing my best to digest congealed Thanksgiving leftovers.
I'm doing that and also gearing myself up for the Missouri/Kansas game set to kick off in about four hours.
However, TV listings are only giving me the "To Be Announced" description.
If "To Be Announced" turns out to be "Duck Tails: The Movie" then a certain offending television set is going to find itself flung right off the balcony.
So this is the biggest game in the history of EVER. And it just got BIGGER because #1 LSU lost. So now there's a number one ranking on the line in addition to all that other stuff. Insane. I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around it.
Anyway, as far as baseball goes, Torii Hunter is an Angel now, and that's interesting because the Angels already have a full outfield. Maybe they're defecting to a softball league and will play four in the field instead of three.
The Cardinals patched up the holes in their dismal team by signing... a backup catcher. Jason LaRue hit an astoundingly awful .143 for the Royals last season. His OPS+ (a stat measuring offensive production against everybody else in the league [an average player has an OPS+ of 100]) in 2007 was just 33. The Cardinals have pitchers whose OPS+ is higher than that. But don't overlook the fact that LaRue's stolen base percentage last year was 100%. One-for-one, baby!
They're saying we won't know what killed Joe Kennedy, who the Blue Jays picked up late last season, for another two months. It's tragic and a little bit disturbing to find out a 28-year-old athlete in good physical condition apparently dies of natural causes. Around Thanksgiving, too. In Florida for a wedding. With a wife and one-year-old son. So sad.
Don't confuse George Burns with George Burns or, of course, Nathan Birnbaum. All were born within seven years of each other. All were fairly popular at one point or another. Only two were MVP candidates (with George Henry winning the AL award in 1926, although it's worth noting that prior winners [*cough* Babe Ruth *cough*] weren't eligible to win repeat MVP awards until 1930).
Today is George Joseph's birthday. That's what spurred this Burns tangent. Happy 118th.
I'm going to go now because every minute I spend typing is another minute I spend not watching college football.
