Flotsam and Jetsam New Year's Day Edition

Miscellaneous New Year's Day thoughts and observations.

Per Covers.com - if you bet $100 on every game the Red Sox played this past decade you would have lost a total of -$1,170. If you bet $100 on every game the Yankees played this past decade you would have lost a total of -$5,233... Today is JD Salinger's 91st birthday but of course he easily could have died years ago under an assumed name and nobody would know.... Did anyone get Hasselhoff drunk last night? Now I want a cheeseburger... Interesting stat via Dan Wetzel: Teams TCU beat are 6-0 in bowl games. TCU beat those teams by an average of 20.8 points... I wish Rooney Rule meant every team had to interview at least one Irish-American. We got screwed over during the No Irish Need Apply Era... Happy 30th birthday to Elin Nordegren. Her first New Year's Eve and birthday as a quasi single woman. I'm there for you Elin if you need comforting... Today I like West Virginia over Florida State and Oregon over Ohio State...