Welcome back Cotter
We’re back, and unless you’re a miserly spam robot you’ll never know it. But we’re back nonetheless, and the impotence pills spam is gone (though we can never know what tomorrow holds). I deleted 135 pages of comment spam this afternoon, and having left this once great blog ridden of any signifigant information for an unreasonably long time, I decided it was time to make a comeback.
Problem is, I’ve become thoroughly disgusted with baseball, and I’ll tell you why in a minute. So in the meantime I’ve been pouring all of my blood, sweat and tears into my superlative NBA blog, Crashing the Glass (Around the NBA). If any of my once loyal readers happen upon this page, I apologize for deleting all of the posts that you once wasted your lunch break reading, and all of your pithy, knowledgeable comments- but I had to get rid of the spam that had declared a kind of internet Prima Nocta on our blog.
In any event, I AM disgusted with our American past time, primarily because of the fact that the dreaded New York Yankees won the Fall Classic. How heartwarming- the team with a bigger payroll than Enron took the ring- who knew? Who knew if you signed C.C. Sabathia, Mark Teixiera, and A.J. Burnett in the same off season you would have a good shot to surpass your finacially strapped opponents? And why are those opponents still strapped with the Steinbrenners sending them millions every season?
It’s all very frustrating, illogical, unbalanced…disgusting.
And while I’m not disgusted, I’m far from pleased with my Atlanta Braves roster makeover. Particularly the bullpen, which got markedly older in a very short period of time a couple of weeks ago, when the Braves let Mike Gonzalez walk, traded Rafael Soriano and signed the ghost of Billy Wagner and the well-traveled Takashi Saito to replace the pair of fireballlers.
The bench? Atlanta doesn’t have one anymore. Let’s hope those Brooks Conrad apologists were right, because we might need the diminutive slugger this season. Gone are Kelly Johnson, Ryan Church and the imfamous Greg Norton. The Braves outfield currently consists of Nate McClouth and a pair of question marks.
In regards to a potential Braves trade, they are working with essentially one commodity- if you consider an old Derek Lowe and his bloated contract a commodity, trade or otherwise. So let’s fire up that hotstove and consider these grim possibilities- and how about that Jason Heyward? The kid better be good…
It feels good to be back.
