Things I Think I Think:

1. Peter King, who's format I am shamelessly thieving, is among the best living sports writers. He does football better than anyone, but he did a very credible job with baseball in this year's SI preview. I wonder if he's still glad he traded for Nomar.

2. There's a reason I go to Starbucks and McDonalds. It's consistency - I know what I'm getting everytime, on any continent - and in Indy, lack of options. Peet's would have me in there daily if they'd put one here.

3. Scott Long, stathead extraordinaire, was linked to in the very cool Soxaholix comic-blog. Nice job, SL.

4. Any debate that gets as religious as the Moneyball/Non-Moneyball one is never going to be settled. Let others fight and I'll look for the success in the middle ground.

5. Five of the six division races look decided to me. For all the talk about parity, Bud Selig is at least making the season interesting with the wild card possibilities. Yes, I give Bud full credit for that and yes, I like the wild card.

6. I have Tivo. I have XM. I have iPod. What's the next cool gadget?

7. Billy Idol is underrated as a musician, but his album "Cyberpunk" is even MORE underrated than normal. Idol's no worldchanger, but his thoughtful look at the universe of William Gibson was well ahead of its time. Worth a listen if you can find it.

8. I still miss Napster. Not the one now, but the real one. Audiogalaxy is dearly departed as well. This is not the next Napster.

9. Blogs are reaching the broadcast point. I'm expecting blog consolidation to be the big media story of 2005. As with news websites, the top bloggers will be consolidated under some umbrella - news, politics, magazines, something - and assimilated. Blogs won't replace or even threaten major media; they do threaten journalism schools.

10. I simply don't care about the Olympics this year and probably won't watch. Ok, I'll watch the HD coverage, but I'll watch friggin' bumblebees in HD. I hope there's a big story that comes out, like it almost always does, that makes us all care. Maybe it's Michael Phelps or some transcendent moment like Mary Lou Retton or Kerri Strug, but the Olympics are teetering on irrelevance.