Thursday Thoughts

I talked all about baseball in last night's post, a little more baseball now among other things....

- It appears Albert Pujols will take more time to think about where he will play in 2012. Numerous reports came out last night saying that no decision will be made before the end of the Winter Meetings. I have zero clue where he's landing now. Could it be St. Louis again? Los Angeles with the Angels? However, I'm going to venture this guess. The Mets looked to look Ike Davis yesterday, there's your mystery team. Let that simmer. (UPDATE: About 10 minutes after posting this, Yahoo reported Pujols has agreed to 10 year/$260 million deal with the Angels)
- In international news, Yu Darvish will be posted by his Japanese club to go to the States to play. Darvish has been a dominating pitcher in Japan, going 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA this past season. One major issue is this, Darvish was getting 6 days off between starts as opposed to the 4 he would get in MLB. This has all the potential of a Yankees or Red Sox signing with the amount of money needed in posting fees to get Darvish plus the contract. Probably going to take over $100 million. Just don't see anyone else going after him for that kind of money.
- There seems to be a growing tidal wave wanting a college football playoff with Stanford AD Bob Bowlsby saying that a 4-team playoff is "inevitable".Would that idea be so bad? Really?
- The opening of NBA training camps and free agency begin tomorrow. It seems more and more likely that not a lot of trades are going to happen and there aren't any big-name free agents. A tweak here and there for some teams but you have to think the two teams to beat are still Miami and Dallas.
- Last but not least today, I go to high school football. A team in Massachusetts lost the state title game this past weekend because their quarterback while running in for the winning touchdown raises his arm for five yards. That brought out a penalty for taunting. Give me a break! These kids are in high school, they get excited. Why don't we just put all the players on pills to make them even the whole game, no excitement about anything and see how fun the game looks then. Shame shame on the high school association.

That's it for now, maybe more tonight if things develop....

Upset Weekend

It was a wild weekend to say the least in college football as the No. 2, 4 and 5-ranked teams in the BCS Standings all lost. Now the whole BCS is thrown for a loop and it is looking more and more likely than we are going to see a LSU-Alabama rematch. The first game was epic for defense but do we really need another matchup of that?

The real fun comes in if Arkansas beats LSU Friday afternoon. Then more chaos because the only undefeated team could potentially be Houston and we all know there is no way the BCS will put Houston in the title game......right? Don't the Cougars deserve a shot at this if there are the only undefeated team left? Otherwise, you are left with a champion with at least one loss on the year.

Go get me a 8-team playoff. The bowl season lasts long enough and has too many mediocre 6-6 teams in there. Let's play this out to next season with some dates....play the quarterfinals on Sat., Dec. 22 with the semifinals on New Year's Day and the title game on Monday, Jan. 7. Why can't this work? Saturday's top 5 losses show the need there is for one.