The Smart Get Smarter

Well, the Angels picked up Bobby Abreu for one year at the relatively measly price of 5 million dollars. This just proves the fact that good teams make good decisions and come out smelling like a rose more often than not. These of course are the same Angels that habitually embarrass the Yankees, the team that gets on base and then runs like the devil, the team that brings in strong relief pitching to shut down any thoughts its opponent had of coming back.

Abreu, by the way, batted .296 for the Yanks last year with 20 dingers and 100 rbi’s along with 100 runs scored. Sure, he’s a little afraid of the wall in right field, but maybe that’s why he’s scheduled to play left. Any way you look at it, this is a solid pickup for the Angels.

It’ll probably rank right up there with the Tigers signing of Pudge Rodriguez a couple of years ago.

I’m giving the Mets a pass on this missed opportunity as they do have quite a few left-handed batters already. They need a solid right-handed bat. That is, if they need another bat at all. All that pitching makes hitting almost extraneous.

Bret Favre is retiring again. What can you say? I certainly hope it’s true. The Jets, meanwhile, from Woody and Tannenbaum, have released quotables expounding on his excellent play and his humanity. Gimme a friggin break. They’re also committed to not raising ticket prices, a good thing, of course, but you’ll still have to come up with the dough for the seat license.

So, if Favre plays out this situation according to form, he’ll retire and then un-retire about every other day for a few months before signing on with some totally unexpected team. Or, who knows, he may even wind up with the Jets again, who are genuflecting themselves right into the ground.

And Miguel Tejada is scheduled to apologize today. Another non-surprising surprise is just what baseball needs right now. Let’s just pull in everybody the public has suspected anyway and get them to say “sorry”. What could be less painful than that?

Arod’s “sorry” was pretty sorry, by the way. He was young, he was very stupid, he had just made a lot of money, he felt tremendous pressure to perform, yada yada ya….sounded a lot like my fraternity brothers apologizing for unspeakable atrocities committed at open houses by saying, “Well, I was drunk”.

But that’s okay. Sorry is better than not being sorry and it’s all we’re going to get. I couldn’t help but smile though as he restricted his usage to his years in Texas. And qualified everything really by not being really precise about anything. But that’s Arod being Arod…

Hmm, sounds familiar. Manny being Manny, Arod being Arod. I read today that fans are tired of hearing about Manny. Not me. He’s the best thing that’s happened to baseball in quite a long time. If he could run the bases, there would be no God.

But geez, I wish the Knicks would win a game again. It’s been a while and D’Antoni actually made a mistake to lose that last one, the one before Jamal Crawford lit them up for Golden State.

That’s all for me today. I’m nursing an urge to accomplish something on this beautiful Spring day in February.