Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- WTF? Runner found to be hitman after his GPS watch ties him to crime scene

- Peak Chinese? China's looming crisis: a shrinking population

- I am going to randomly throw the phrase, "clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!" in my conversations this week. Just for the hell of it.

- The world as 100 people over the past two centuries. We live in an age of abundance!

- Companies that regularly attend Davos under-perform the S&P 500 by a lot.  Go woke - go broke!

- China's economic growth last year was the slowest in 28-years. They are probably going to have to make a major trade deal with the US relatively soon.

- And speaking of China - looks like the most dangerous job in the world is to be a billionaire in China. One has been dying on average every 40 days.  Kinda scary!

Slip Slidin' Away

Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away

The Red Sox chances of advancing to the World Series are slip slidin' away. The Red Sox were trounced last night 13-4 and now trail the Tampa Bay Rays 3 games to one. This is a hole I don't think the Red Sox will be able to dig out of.

There I said it.

Does that make me a bad fan? No it just makes me a realist. I'll still follow each of the team's offseason moves with baited breath but I'm now convinced the offseason is much closer than Red Sox fans wish it was.

I only watched the first inning of last night's game. Does that make me a bad fan? No it just makes me squeamish. After seeing the Rays race out to a 3-0 lead off two HR in the first inning I got that feeling in the pit of my stomach. The same feeling you got watching an old Lucy Show or Laverne and Shirley show where you knew the girl(s) were going to get into trouble of their own making. That feeling makes me uncomfortable.

Instead of watching - I tuned into the movie Hitman on HBO.

I enjoyed the mindless violence and especially the fact that it starred Deadwood star Timothy Olyphant. The movie was a blatant rip off of the Bourne Identity movies even with the same ominous techno background music. But it was enjoyable nonetheless.

During the movie - I kept track of the game on Yahoo! That was much less enjoyable.

I couldn't even bear to watch the lowlights on SportsCenter - so I watched a re-run of Rome instead.

It will probably end up being a Tampa Bay vs. Philly match-up in the World Series. I'll be rooting for Philly. It's not that I'm vindictive against the Rays - it's just that I have friends in Philly and I'll be pulling for them.