With a hat tip to Peter King - the best football writer around and someone I hope to run into at Spring Training - here's ten things I think I think:

10. Jamey Newberg finally convinced me to listen to the band Jellyfish. He's been touting them for years and while I've occasionally looked for it, it was a random email from him that made me look for it on allofmp3.com. He's right - it's one of the best albums I'd never heard. I love finding bands like that, all the way back to when people asked me what that crazy stuff I was listening to was back in '83. You know, unknowns like U2, Depeche Mode, and R.E.M.

9. Sammy's nearly an Oriole. What's the next shoe to drop? The Cubs can't possibly head into next season with the offense they have now, can they?

8. What would you change about the Team Health Reports? I'm messing with the format a little bit, but there's still time for suggestions.

7. "Numb3rs" did a 17 share on a Friday night. That's CSI numbers, exactly what CBS was hoping for. Will this show make math sexier and help BP become the "baseball numb3rs" site? I'd feel better about the show if it didn't have the lame l33t spelling. Woot otherwise.

6. How many of you will actually read Jose Canseco's book? He's picked up a publisher, so I'm hoping for an advance copy and a BPR interview.

5. Target now has a Jamaican Blue Mountain Blend at $5.99 for a pound. It's not nearly as good as a real JMB, but for the price, it's a pretty good coffee.

4. I really like Gmail, but I don't use it. I have 20,000 unfiltered messages on a computer less than a year old, but its my mail paradigm that makes it tough for me to switch. I don't use folders or sorting much, which is of course why I have a tendency to 'lose' things or rather, not be able to find them. How are people using Gmail and does it really change how you work? I would be interested in a Gbrowser, though it would be hard to get me to switch from Safari.

3. I've avoided politics like the plague since November, even avoiding The Daily Show. I'm not going to start now, especially here, but it's made me think about a new possibility - politics by proxy. Groups like Move On or Club For Growth have members, but it's only a small percentage that are active. The rest are likely to vote as a block, giving the group a near proxy and forcing politics around these machines. AARP has been doing this for years and points to organization as one of the key political needs for the coming decade.

2. The Amazing Race has been kind of lame this year, but still very watchable. There was no villain, no real underdog, and Jonathon was just cringeworthy at almost every turn. The biggest mystery for me is what Rebecca ever saw in Adam. Someone tell me the kid is rich or something.

1. 17 days to pitchers and catchers? Not soon enough, baby.