When the Red Sox season ends after a string of intensely contested marathon games, I find it helps preserve my sanity if I take a short hiatus from baseball.  Honestly, I had my fill of national broadcasters after being subjected to the festering vomit offered by TBS.  Fox Sports is an upgrade.  Read what I just wrote:  Fox, i.e. Tim McCarver and Joe Buck, produce a better baseball broadcast than the clowns employed by Ted Turner.

Still, I needed a rest from the likes of Joe Buck (a similar robot model to Chip Caray, but slightly more advanced), and thus, the World Series.  Philadelphia is on the brink of victory, and it’s mildly amusing that “The Team Which Inspired a Nation” could lose with a whimper during the unprecedented continuance of yesterday’s suspended game.  However, at this point I just want the series to end and the offseason to begin.  All of the other crap, aside from the incompetent broadcasting, that comes with baseball’s post-season: the repetitive commercials, the ostentatious national anthem renditions, the pop culture bullshit, the fighter jets, the fair weather crowd, all of it…I’ve had my fill and I would like it to end.

It’s time to ignite the pilot light on the 2009 Hot Stove Season.

Coming Later:

• Prospect List - I’ll try something unique this year: a prospect depth chart at each position.  I’ll follow that with a standard Top 20 list and updates from the Arizona Fall League (we have some notable guys playing there).
• Revisiting the All-Time Red Sox teams - Obviously the top 2 or 3 lineups aren’t going to change from the beginning of 2007, but we could be seeing some new faces pop in at #4 or #5 in certain positions.
• Thoughts on CC and Teix - Should the Sox make a serious play of either (or both)?
• More…