Hitting the Mental Snooze Button

Chilling after a ride at the gym. Just sort of sitting here with the looseness of melting ice cream and wishing I was eating melting ice cream, but instead behaving. Back on the diet, trying not to think of the medicinal goodness of chocolate...ice cream...moving on quickly now.

The Bride has been home for a couple of days now with a virus. She's been sleeping a lot which is the best thing for her.

Congrats to Cubbie Bruce Sutter who got into the Hall on his thirteenth frickin' try. That's one definition of mental torture.

Rant: Baseball writers once again show their ignorance in judging baseball character and expertise, and they continue to compare the players of yesterday to the players of today. In doing so, well-deserving guys like Andre Dawson, Lee Smith, Jim Rice and The Goose are still on the outside looking in. It ain't right and complicating things for next year's ballot will be the big debate concerning a former A's and Cardinals' first baseman, which will turn the focus away from the good guys on the ballot.

Might as well get started on the Mark McGuire argument now. The plus side: he brought baseball back after the Big Strike, homer king, respected Roger Maris and his family, all-around nice guy. Negatives: steroids, steroids, steroids. My prediction: Mark will eventually get in the Hall, but not next year.

Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn will be elected on the first ballot in 2007 (quite a stretch there in the prediction biz, I know). Watch for Tony to campaign for Jim Rice, who should have been elected this year. That'll be a classy Induction Day for the Hall, especially if Andre Dawson makes it, too.

Sammy Sosa will probably hook up with an American League team as a DH somewhere soon, but he's pretty much done as a full-time player and will have a very hard time getting in the Hall as a result of his diminished play.

Rafael Palmeiro, btw, will not play major league baseball again. Serious, would you want him in your locker room, especially the way he throws teammates under the wheels of the bus? He might as well formally retire (since he's informally retired) and set up an autograph table in Cooperstown next to Pete Rose on Induction Day. That's as close as he'll ever get.


Distance: 7.70 miles
Time: 30:00 minutes
528 calories burned