Slow News Week

Great googaly moogaly, I can't wait for the Super Bowl to be over!

Not because I'm a football fan. I care about football about as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

No, I want the Super Bowl over so that we can see some real baseball news. 'Cause no one in baseball wants to put out any news now, knowing it will get steamrolled by the eleventy bajillion hours of Super Bowl pre-game coverage (and that doesn't include the hype over the commercials).

So we're left with "news" like this:

** Todd Helton might be traded to the Red Sox! Or maybe not! (Query -- would it be news if some team other than the Red Sox were involved?)

** Curt Schilling isn't going to retire!

** The Rangers will announce that they've signed Sammy Sosa to a minor league deal that they agreed to today. But even though they've said they've signed Sosa today, that's not the announcement. The announcement will be tomorrow. So don't get excited until then.

** And finally, in a story that's about as unexpected as the sun rising in the east, Roger Clemens still hasn't decided if he's pitching next year. I give that a "Wow."

On the bright side, it's about three weeks until training camp opens. Huzzah!