This Is What Screws Up Salary Structures.

- What in the bloody hell were the Milwaukee Brewers thinking signing Eric Gagne to a one year deal worth $10 million? Plus incentives? Gagne was absolutely horrible with the Red Sox down the stretch and won't save more than 20 games at best.

The basic truth is that the closer role is the most overrated role in baseball. Aside from a couple of guys like Mo Rivera and Trevor Hoffman (and it looks like eventually Jonathan Papelbon who should be in the starting rotation) closers are a dime a dozen. Any decent reliever can catch lightning in a bottle for one or two years and save 35 games. Then he's done and it's time to give the next guy a shot. Why any team pays a closer more than $6 million a year is beyond me.

- Things just keep getting better at MSG. I hate the Knicks and Isiah so this whole disaster brings a smile to my face. As does the fact that they got killed at home to the awful Sixers.

- In light of all the injury problems they have had the Raptors are still a respectable 11-10. Once they get healthy they will start to role and get a top 5 seed in the still pathetic east.

- This Hollywood writer's strike could lead to one hell of a boring winter.