Pitchin Woo

OK, enough about Valentin- the guy is history in Chicago. Let's move on to the Sox greatest offseason need; starting pitching.

Consensus around the water cooler is that the Sox have a #2 and #3 starters in place in the form of Buhrle and Garcia. The Garland experiment appears to be over, but he could still serve as, maybe a #5 starter. Contreas is likely gone. Grilli certainly can't pitch at the major league level. So, the Sox need to fill, I think, ideally, at least two spots here. There's been a lot of talk about Cub free-agent, goatee-sportin Mark Clement making the move 7 miles south. That'd be OK, but even MC is only a #2 or #3 starter at this point. the Sox need a stud in the #1 spot, someone who's gonna win 20 games, a leader the rest of the staff can rally around.

I have no clue who that person is, or how they'll wind up with the Sox. But here's hopin'.

Beyond that, I have nothing to report this weekend. I didn't get lucky, so I viewed some internet porn to fill the void. And you can pretty much figure where that led.