At least sake doesn't sucky

This morning's song was "Down by the River," the Neil Young version (sorta). We confess (happily) that this one wasn't entirely random. We did hear a cover of the song just last week during a small bluegrassy concert. Otherwise, the subconscious meaning (Down by the river/I shot my baby) would have been more than a little disturbing.

We had a really sucky holiday season. But it was pretty much expected; so at least the suckiness didn't come as a total surprise. The good part about hitting bottom at the end of the year is that it's all up from here to start 2009.

We hope (we think) the Royals 2009 bench looks like this: Teahen, Shealy, German and B. Pena. That would leave TPJ (if he accepts the assignment), the Hawaiian 1B, some 3B guy we picked up and House stashed in Omaha in case somebody gets hurt.

Yes, we're still kind of obsessed with the Royals bench for some reason, and our opinions about it change daily.

Do we have any decent outfielders in Omaha?

P.S. This means we would trade John Buck before the season starts. This also means that we would have to dump Gload somehow. This ALSO means Teahen would be the only backup OF. This also MEANS that we wouldn't have a back-up SS on the big league team. (We're so screwed.)

P.P.S. We bought a bottle of Fu-Ki sake just before Christmas.

P.P.P.S. So far, so good on most of the New Year's resolutions. At least the ones we have control over right now. (We already switched from Marlboro Lights to Ultra Lights, which wasn't even part of the original resolutions.)

P.P.P.P.S. We are aware of the fact that we can't spell Callaspo. We're working on it.