From SI's Web Page To God's Ears......and NO JD Drew News, Yet!!!

Wow, the start of the new work week, the first of the year. And I have come up empty in my search for Boston Red Sox baseball news of any kind. But this should be an eventful week for that team we so love. The shadow of JD Drew looms above the walls of our revered ballpark and echoes all around the imaginary borders of Red Sox Nation, our promised land. And yet another member of our ever-growing bullpen is sure to be added soon. We might not get an established closer, but the club seems to want to accumulate more and more late inning guys, one of whom will step into the closer's role. You all know my feelings on this matter, but the club will do what the club wants to do. What a great time it would be for Craig Hansen to come of age and emerge as a force to be reckoned with. Last year he proved that he was best suited to be a one-inning guy, for his second inning numbers were alarming, to say the least.
Oh, and SI ran an article with their predictions for 2007. And number one on the list? You guessed it, and here it is.......

PREDICTIONS 2007
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"The Red Sox will sign Roger Clemens. The contract will pay Clemens $12 million to join a six-man rotation anchored by Daisuke Matsuzaka, and he'll sign it on June 1, just before a home game against the Yankees. Boston will also agree to retire the Rocket's number 21 at the end of the season. Clemens will then announce (again) that he's retiring."

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Peter here, and I so hope the scribes at SI are correct on this one, although I sense a tinge of humor in the way they wrote their prediction. And Roger, NO HALF SEASON BS. If you think you can't pitch by May 1, rethink your thinking! Take care everyone......welcome back to the daily grind after the twin holidays of Christmas and New Year. And we here in Connecticut experienced the second warmest December since records have been kept. And that's one hundred years! And the combo of November and December was the warmest ever two month span for those particular early winter late fall months. Needless to say, we had ZERO snow, which is amazing. I have an all-wheel drive car, and I love to drive in the white stuff!! Our low early-morning temperatures have been higher than the average high temperatures for this time of year in north central Connecticut, which is officially Southern New England. I think we'll have to pay for these early Spring-like temperatures come February, March, and probably the first half of April. But with the weather, long- term forecasts are a crock. See ya!!!! As always, thanks for spending a few minutes here, your friendly Red Sox sports stop. Burgers and fries upon request. Best in town!