...because I sawr it on tv...

...or so the song goes.

Cactus League Update: Today was the first televised game of Sox spring training. I was home from work so I caught some of it. Some impressions; both Konerko and Uribe chose great pitches to hit (though Uribe didn't actually get a hit), Rowand dropping an easy fly ball (maybe lost it in the sun?) and three Sox runners getting thrown out at home (including two back-to-back). Third base coach Joey Cora waved those runners (at least two of them) in situations when he obviously should have held them. Frank Thomas was up in the booth with Hawk and DJ for a half inning and apparently thinks he'll be back much sooner than anticipated.

The numbers? Borchard was 2 for 3 with 2 homers and 3 RBIs, Valdez 2 for 4, Davis 2 for 3, Konerko 2 for 2. Sea nTracy looked terrible - giving up 3 ER in 2 and 1/3rd.

Baseball term of the day: getaway day n. The last day of a long homestand for a team; the day the club gets away for a road trip.

Channel surfing over the weekend, I had the displeasure of stopping for a few moments to view the wreck that is Ashlee Simpson. The is not female empowerment? This is set-up! What has happened to the state of women in popular music? I guess there have always been shallow faces, more product than artist, be it the Supremes, Debbie Boone, Mariah Caray or A. Simpson. There has always been a balance of other artists, like Carole King, Rickie Lee Jones, Joann Armtring, Patti Smith and PJ Harvey. It makes me realize that Tina Turner and Joan Jett have chuncks of "women" like Ashlee Simpson in their stool. Go back to Waco, wacko.