Roger Clemens is a Genius

Roger Clemens has decided to return once again to play 2/3 of a season.  He signed a $28 million contract, of which he’ll receive a pro-rated amount of probably around $18 million.  I’m a huge Astros fan, so I wish he would have signed with them, but who can blame him for going with the Yankees.  The Astros are off to terrible start, and the Yankees are hovering around .500 even with a lot of injuries and pitching chaos, so they at least stand a chance this year.

This is a win-win.  The Yankees get one of the best starters out there (even though he’s old enough to get 10% off at Luby’s), and Roger gets to earn some serious dough, add to his Hall of Fame numbers, and potentially win another World Series ring.  I’m not much of a Yankees fan, but I’ll be pulling for Roger to put up some great numbers.  For my money, he’s probably one of the top 3 pitchers of all time.

Lost sets its end date

Over the last couple of months, Lost has become my favorite TV show.  Its been one of my favorite shows since it started, but its never been #1 in my book, mostly due to the fact the 24 has been so good (until this season).  The top dogs at ABC just announced that Lost will run for 3 more seasons, each consisting of 16 consecutively run episodes.   This is mostly great news.  We now know we will eventually get all the answers we want.  And we know that we get three more seasons, which I feared there wouldn’t be that many more since the ratings are starting to fall.  The only bad thing is that we only get 16 episodes per season, which means it will probably run from February to May each year.  All in all, great news and it will be fun to see the puzzle slowly get solved.