Winter Meetings - Day 1: ZZZZZZZZZZ.....

Day One is done, and sadly, no big news and very little action. That is unless you believe a decidedly mediocre pitcher is worth roughly the same amount per year as a Cy Young winner. All of this "throwing money at adequate pitchers" insanity is probably the biggest story from Monday, as Jayson Stark notes. But if this trend continues, what will pitchers like, say Barry Zito and Daisuke Matsuzaka take home? By the way, isn't there some sort of deadline appraoching? (9 days, 14 hours left, if you are following at home...)

As for the Manny saga, no movement, except for what we already know: Theo wants the world, chico, and everything in it. Now, it seems a closer is the top priority in what returns the Sox yield from any trade. Wait, wasn't it a shortstop? Or was it another bat to protect Papi? The world, chico, and everything in it...

Observations and predictions based on pure uneducated speculation as of 8:47 AM on Tuesday morning.

1. Barry Bonds has no friends and I predict will remain with Giants, despite the current uncertainty, because they are the only team who knows what to do with him. Felipe, uncle Willie, his pop's legacy - he should just stay put until his career is over.
2. Barry Zito is about to be rih-hich, biatch! Reports say Texas has offered over $100 million for 6 (!!!!!!) years, and that the Cubs are trying to follow suit. Makes you wonder what the Mets will offer? Let's hope for the sake of whoever gets him that he isn't the second coming of Matt Clement (except, of course, if he ends up on the Yankees...)
3. Speaking of the Yankees, it looks like Bernie's days patrolling the Stadium are coming to an end. Maybe he is the bat the Sox are looking for to protect Papi if Manny is traded.
Kidding.
4. Peter Gammons is getting another award.
5. Best story to come out of Disneyland so far? My vote is this, which seems to me like poetic justice. What do you mean there are no second acts?