After 90 minutes with the KFAN sports talk show from Minneapolis, the day after the Twins traded Johan Santana, I'm trying not to be totally depressed. We have to face it---the Twins organization can't compete financially with New York, Boston and California, so it's no surprise Santana looked for more money elsewhere and got it. Whether the Twins got anything of value in return for him will remain---for some time---to be seen. However, Santana had the Twins in a stranglehold---trade me now or I'll pitch this year but walk at the end of the year and you'll get nothing for me. Not much choice. But at least our Twins still have Morneau, Mauer and Cuddyer for several years to come. Classy guys, fun to watch, worthy to be cheered for! We're only three weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, and there will be baseball preseason games on the Internet in only a month! So this weather can be set aside. I talked to daughter Holly in Rochester, Minn., yesterday afternoon while they were in the midst of a blizzard. Their kindergartener and the rest of her school kids in Rochester were sent home an hour early so the school district could get its buses on the roads early. We have just cold ight now although a few light flakes of snow have fluttered down, just enough to make it necessary to get out the broom and sweep the sidewalks yet again. . . . . .
It was an interesting night of watching the politics on MSNBC last night, but before I forget, something I was going to say about State of the Union night on Monday. The best speech of the night was definitely not made by "W"---has he ever made a great speech?---but by Gov. Sibelius of Kansas, who gave the Democratic response. Keep an eye on that woman! How about as a vice presidential candidate with Sen. Obama? . . . . .
One night's election results and we take care of a couple more would-be candidates. Guiliani is going to bow out and endorse McCain today on the Republican side, and Edwards is going to step aside from the Democratic nomination race. . . . . . One commentator last night observed that Huckabee has been "running" for vice president for the past couple of months. We'll see on the debate tonight if he cuddles up to McCain. Having Huckabee as a vice presidential candidate on McCain's ticket is scary---McCain being as old as he is (71 now, 72 by the time he would take office next year!) means Huckabee moving up to the presidency would not be out of the question. A Baptist preacher in the Oval Office? Good grief! This guy would spend his first year concentrating on abortion, gay marriage and filling the Supreme Court with right-wing conservatives. . . . . . Best line I heard from any of the candidates in their speeches last night came from Mitt Romney: "America needs a president who has actually held a job out in the real economy." . . . . .
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