Al-Jimzeera Talking Points

* I'm more bummed at this point about Johnny Damon becoming a Yankee than I am about the transit strike. The walk over the Brooklyn Bridge last night was actually beautiful.  Not cold enough to be too cold.  The Red Cross was giving out hot cocoa on the Brooklyn side. And I thought "Couldn't this money be better spent in New Orleans?" Ho! Damon's departure means I might see him on the street or at the Stadium, which is cool.  But has there been a bigger Fenway flight since the Sox lost Fisk & Lynn? Theo and Johnny were lifers. Will they shave Johnny on a Visa commercial? Probably. We love you Johnny but ugh. The Sox are back to Square One / Underdog status. If the season started today it would be Trot Nixon in CF and Dustin Pedroia at ss and Kevin Youkilis at 1b. Fighting it out with Toronto for 2nd place in the East. Christmas is canceled. Get to work, co-GMs. Paging Coco Crisp. Paging Ken Griffey.

* I was hoping when "The Carver" had his identity revealed last night on "Nip/Tuck" that it would somehow turn out to be me.

* I am trying not to get too excited about who Abramoff might implicate because my high hopes for the whole Plamegate thing have been so shot.

* Raw Story is like the Disneyland of news sources. So many rides! But at the end of the day you just feel kinda sea-sick from being jerked around all day.

* I blame Peter Braunstein for the Transit Strike. Somehow he's behind this.