Sorry for the dearth of postings this week – between car issues and a heavy work workload the days just all ran together. So it’s no surprise that my trip to Las Vegas comes just at the right time. We’ll be back on Thursday, so in between here are a few nuggets worth offering up for consideration:

For the Red Sox and David Price, the price was exactly right. Did the Sox overpay? Of course they did. Would it have been better to have signed Jon Lester to a long-term deal when they had the chance? Of course. But, as they say, “it is what it is”, and the Sox have had a great off-season so far in shoring up the front and back of their pitching staff.

It will be sad to see David “Big Papi” Ortiz go at the end of the 2016 season but I respect athletes who like the idea of going out on top. And with Ortiz departing after 2016, might that mean there’s a place on the team for Hanley Ramirez as DH starting in 2017.

I don’t know any other way to say it: you really have to wonder about Barack Obama’s mental health. the guy is totally and completely off his rocker. If the GOP had any guts they would start impeachment hearings against him for blatant incompetence and dereliction of duty as Commander in Chief. Thank God we’ve only got a little more than a year left in his term but one can only imagine what kind of damage this ignoramus and his Attorney General plan on doing in the meantime.

By this time next year I have four goals in mind: 1) to still be employed, 2) to vote for Donald Trump in Arizona’s primary and (I hope) general election, 3) to have my concealed carry permit and a firearm at my side whenever I’m out and about here in Arizona, and 4) get myself down to somewhere in the neighborhood of a 24 handicap. Will it all happen? Who knows. But it’s good to have goals as the year starts rolling into a new one.

After all, this country is in the best of hands.

Maybe these guys were just looking to commit some workplace violence. They can’t be Islamic radicals, right?

See y’all on Thursday. In the meantime, enjoy!