Yawn, grumble, shuffle, shuffle.
That was me this morning as I awakened from my holiday slumber to come back to work. One thing is for certain – I haven't been bored. When it snows every other day, you tend to keep busy outside. Heck, I haven't even witnessed a college bowl game yet, but I suppose the "real" bowl games haven't quite fired up yet. The home-state Wisconsin Badgers didn't even belong in a bowl, so the whooping by Florida State was pretty predictable.
I did enjoy the NFL games yesterday. NBC showed how the playoffs standings looked before games started and how they ended up at the end of the day. Now that's the way a season should end. Pats, Broncos, Jets, Tampa Bay, Bears - out. Whoo-hee, that's fun.
I only caught a few of the Brett Favre-related jabs from the NY media this morning. The Wisconsin websites enjoy sharing that with Favre's long legacy in the state. It's tough when a team loses four of its last five games, and gets bounced from the playoffs. I guess all that love New York had with Favre when the team was 8-3 faded away with the team's postseason chances. I'd imagine he'll head south and enjoy the peace and quiet for a while.
Turning to baseball, my cousin didn't get five feet out of his truck at Christmas before he was spouting about another New York team - the Yankees - and their high-spending ways. I guess the Teixeira signing was the last straw for him.
He's now asking for a salary cap - at least "something to be done." Well, I can say the salary cap will never happen - not without another labor strike. And as much as I think it's unfair that one team can seemingly buy whomever it wants, it doesn't guarantee them a World Series title, much less a ticket to the playoffs.
Plus, the Yankees will be left sitting with some of these contracts for many years. As is usually the case when the Yankees sign a guys to 6-plus years, they help out for about three, get hurt or decline in pay and then the remaining contract is still paid out with no output from the player.
I'd like to see something change, but I don't think it will. Until then, I'll just continue to hope the Yankees blow it and all that money is for naught. .