My christmas wish is a simple one.  i just want to punch ROBIN VENTURA right in the face. EINSTEIN repeated his magic last night and once again, YOU get to play manager. WHITE SOX leading 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth with TWO OUTS and KANSAS CITY has a runner on second.

you have a right hander on the mound and the next batter is the left handed N.AOKI who strikes out very rarely. he's also 3 for 3 with a walk. on deck is the right handed LORENZO CAIN, a high volume strikeout candidate who is oh for 3 on the night. do you:
A) pitch to the left hander or
B) walk the lefty & pitch to the right hander

anyone who knows anything about the game chooses "B"  the ONLY correct play is "B"...walking the red hot lefty and trying to end the game with a strikeout from cain.  birdbrain, of course, chooses "A" and aoki hits the first pitch for a double and the sox end up losing 4-3.

this is about the eighth time that he has cost the sox in the late innings. ventura is the difference between being 10 games under .500 and almost .500.  he absolutely SUCKS.

child abuse, domestic violence, substance abuse. the NFL seems to be confused over the discipline which NEEDS to be handed out. talk show host DAVE KAPLAN had a great idea. "if a player is charged, he is suspended WITH PAY and is ineligible to play until the case is adjudicated in the court." his idea makes perfect sense because the family unit is not affected because the player is still getting paid plus he can pay the attorney fees as he goes along. when a police officer gets in trouble, that's exactly what happens in most cases. removed from active duty with pay until the case is decided. 

note to ADRIAN PETERSON: despite your statement to the press, you ARE a child abuser. anyone is this day and age who uses a 'switch' to discipline his child doesn't deserve to have children. as a black man, you're painfully aware of the past when slaves were routinely 'switched' for the slightest infraction and left with a lifetime of scars on their backs & buttocks. times have changed but apparently you didn't. shame on you.

commissioner ROGER GODDELL makes $44 MILLION FREAKING DOLLARS to run the NFL and he has screwed everything up for the last several months.  the only good decision he needs to make is where & when to turn in his retirement papers. he is either incompetent or a liar and you don't need either one as a commissioner.  tell you what....i'll do the job for a million and you can use donate the other 43 million to abuse centers across the nation.  i'm available right now and i'll run the league out of my house.

will the MILWAUKEE BREWERS qualify for collapse of the year if they don't make the playoffs?  i think they win it hands down. 12 games left and 1.5 games behind the last spot. the brew crew started the season 20-7 and imploded in late august.  sorry for the rest of them but i hope CHEATER RYAN BRAUN wins nothing the rest of his career.

it's a shame that DEREK JETER will end his career without benefit of the playoffs. the YANKEES are 6 games out and bobbing in the water. they lost 4 of their 5 starting pitchers to injury. ouch.

finally, FYI........both the cubs and the sox were eliminated from the pennat chase in the past week or so.  if you had a wager, the cubs were eliminated first. and no, neither is going to make the wild card game either.

adios for now.