Baseball Econ 102

The Weekend Section of today's Wall Street Journal has a nice article on trickle down economics of baseball, using Sox Clubhouse manager Vince Fresso as an example. If the Sox win it all, Fresso stands to pocket over $300K CASH! That's on top of a salary that's already near, if not in the $100K range, not including the cash tips, etc he makes during the regular season. Damn - I'm in the wrong business. though I guess I really don't have much of a burning desire to wash Juan Uribe's jock, download Styx tunes to AJ's iPod, or fetch big baby cheeseburgers for Crede.

The WSJ has had a lot of good baseball articles recently. One earlier this week focused on state laws in Illinois that have recently been removed that help scaplers get even more money for World Series tickets.. . Another one last week talked about the Molina brothers and how much they fight for their mommy's love. But overall, the coverage this week still slants against the Sox. Reading further into today's weekend section, there's an article focusing on Houston's three great starting pitchers. There was also an interesting article earlier this week about stats innovator, MIT grad, and eccentric Indiana resident, Jeff Sagarin, and his view of the state's wacked out time zone issues. If you think the time zones in Indiana are screwed up now, beginning next year, it may be possible to drive straight south from Gary to Evansville and change time zones 4 times!

Commuting into work on the train this morning, I sat next to girl who was a dead ringer for Kate Moss, other than the having her nose buried in a mountain of cocaine. She was all tan and thin and trim, in jeans and a lil half shirt. Then she proceed to spend 20 minutes applying her make up. I've been around enough beauitiful women in my life to know that, general, they just don't wake up looking like that, most have to work at it (the MILF is an exception - a real natural beauty). But 20 minutes. C'mon. Total turn off.