Rather Be Happy Then Right

  My experience is that people who say, "I'd rather be happy then right" are neither. I know this because this was the Lovely Old Lady's (LOL) mantra for a while.   I on the other hand am both happy and right.

  First several months back I mentioned that I had an altercation with actor (a term I am using in the loosest sense of the word) Nicholas Cage outside the Stones' concert in Chicago. Somehow, Mr. Cage who can neither act nor invest (he's broke thanks solely to his greed, he invested everything with Bernie Made Off easy) won an Academy Award. Reminds me of the old adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day. The altercation was strikingly similar to the one for which he was arrested for in New Orleans Saturday.  So Nicholas assaults big time entertainment attorney (me) and gets away with it.  He assaults his wife and gets arrested.  You would think she was probably used to it by now.

  Also I have been right on with my AI predictions.  I was sorry but not surprised to see Paul go.  Bad song choices, failure to improve and lack of originality doomed him weeks ago.  If he can write music he will be fine.  I would even consider attending a Paul McDonald show.  All things being equal I think it's James' show to lose.   See what my expert Andrea thinks.

  Finally, I have been warning the Faithful for a couple years now about the Boy Wonder, GM over at Fenway.  Theo like my buddy Nicholas has been lucky.  The problem with luck is it runs out.  (Lately, I can't seem to run out of bad luck fast enough).  The 2004 Championship team was built largely by Dan Duquette.  Carl Crawford is just the latest in a long line of bad free agent busts.  JD Drew, Julio Lugo, Edgar Renteria, Dice-K were all both expensive and obvious mistakes, obvious to everyone but Theo. The trades haven't been much better either. Two legitimate major leaguers in Clay Meredith and Josh Bard for Doug Mirabelli.  Bronson Arroyo was traded for Willie Mo Pena.  Finally, who can forget the acquisition of Eric "Gas Can" Gagne.  Mirabelli, Pena and Gagne are all reading this blog and not playing professional baseball.  If you think it's going to get better over on Landsdowne Street think again.

  So "while I ain't always right but I 've never been wrong", I am not happy because I am right.  I am happy because the surfboard is on the car and I'm meeting Daddy and YZERTIME at the Secret Spot tomorrow.

KOKO