As a baseball fan you know its December when you hear stuff like this.

And of course as a Dodger fan I get all giddy and light-headed when I read:

"Another club official repeated a rumor heard in the neighborhood this week: a three-way deal in which Garciaparra would be traded to the Dodgers, who just cleared some payroll room by foisting Eric Karros and Mark Grudzielanek on the Cubs, the Dodgers would send some young players to the MLB-controlled Expos, and the Expos would send superstar right fielder Vladimir Guerrero to the Sox."

Nomar in Blue....Nomar in Blue...I gotta find a paper bag to breathe in.

With Nomar slowing down the place with his OCD-tendecies at-bats, late-arriving Dodger fans will only miss two innings instead of three.

GO EVANS...PULL THE TRIGGER!

I am so amped up on Starbuck's Christmas Blend right now. I'm ready for today and tomorrow. Of course there's the whole uncontrollable shaking thing going on too but a small price to pay, eh?

Whoop! Ask and Ye Shall Recieve!!

Razormouth is back in action!

Various Sports Musings

- It looks like the deal between the Dodgers and Cubs is finalized, with eternal 1st baseman (or so I thought) Eric Karros and Mark Grudzielanek (or as like to call him Squinty McWallpuncher) for Todd "Big Whiff" Hundley and former Pirates top-prospect Chad Hermansen. The smoke has cleared and I've looked at the numbers and here are my thoughts.

I love this deal...with one caveat, that Todd Hundley is nowhere near the opening day roster in April. Admittedly this is, as has been repeated ad nauseum, a swap of payroll headaches. All players involved are overpriced underachievers who have not aged well. I'm completely flabbergasted that Trader Dan was able to unload the double albatross contracts of Grudz and Karros, something that I would've previously thought impossible. Very impressive indeed.

Danny-Boy also made encouraging comments to the fact that he will seek new additions by trade rather than free-agent signings, a welcome comfort to hear after the two-headed monstrosity known as DreifBrown that was left behind in the Age of Darkness and Suffering (the Malone era). The free agents out there don't exactly blow me away. Jeff Kent, while intriguing is hitting 37 and would want a long term contract. Cliff Floyd plays only 120 games a year on average, not enough for the money he wants.

- Ummm...wasn't the return of Shaq supposed to end the downward spiral of the L.A. Lakers? Thank God for the Grizzlies and the Clippers, they're the only things keeping the Lakes out of last place. This is a team that is playing scared right now, even though I have no doubt that they will eventually wake up.

- Michael Vick aside, is there any doubt that Rich Gannon is your NFL MVP?

Wow, looks like I made another blogger's blogroll. Call it a lack of self-esteem or a strange need for recognition/acceptance but I feel immensley satisfied when I make it on another list. It amazes me that anyone gives my bipolar ramblings a second look much less adds me to their regularly read list. I appreciate all of you reading it and hope it provides as much entertainment for you as it does for me to write.

Anyway enough with the soppy stuff...let's get back to the regulary scheduled weirdness.

This is my hometown...This is my-y-y-y ho-o-metown.

Glorious. It appears that the cause for all of these cases of cruise ship sickness is due to a virus named after my hometown.

Let's look at the list of the things that Norwalk is now famous for:

- Unleashing 80's teen-pop sensation Tiffany upon the world.
- For being the home of pre-fame Metallica
- Being the shooting location for Rydell High in both Grease movies.

and now

- Having a virus with the same name.

Doesn't exactly fill one with civic pride now does it?

The Afternoon Quiz (thanks Rick)

8 Items on your desk:
- A plastic Bob the Tomato figurine
- Bath and Body Works Cucumber Melon Body Lotion (NOT GAY)
- Elvis Presley's "Graceland" snowglobe.
- Mini-Altoids in Dodger and Angel tins
- Fernando Valenzuela bobblehead doll
- A Luke Skywalker statue
- A Darth Vader statue
- Pictures of my wife and kids

7 things I touch every day
- My wife's hair
- My goatee
- My boys' hands
- A book
- A soda can (filled preferably)
- A toothbrush
- My car

6 movies you can't live without
- Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Godfather Trilogy
- LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Citizen Kane
- Blazing Saddles

5 nicknames you have had in your life.
- Chapinator
- Mamas and the Chapas
- Chaps
- Chapinius (my Roman nick)
- Chapster

4 places you want to visit
- Maui
- Scotland
- London
- New Yawk

3 things you wish you could change about yourself
- my weight
- my teeth
- the ability to be good at sports

2 phone numbers you call most
- My parents
- Dave B's

1 person you plan on spending the rest of your life with.
- My Karly Sue of course.

I...am frankly...shocked

I'll have more thoughts on this later.

O when, O when, will Razormouth live again?