1. I am so ready for baseball season. Got the fantasy baseball league set up, complete with participation from JN, Keith, the brothers and more. My buddy Keith also has the MLB.tv audio package, for which he has graciously let me use the username/password. I think I did the same for him last year or the year before.

I actually love baseball audio, on the AM even. I can work, write, do whatever while it's on. Baseball is full of minutiae. It moves at the pace of an Enya album. It's graceful, and the side conversations are the kind one would have at a diner over a piece of pie and a cup of coffee.

2. No surprise that the Oklahoma women's basketball team lost this weekend to Mississippi. Sheri Coale has had some real trouble in the Sweet 16, but I knew the Rebels would be trouble as soon as I saw them singing a gospel song together in the locker room before the game. I literally thought, "Holy sh%t. They're to-geth-er."

Like baseball, listening to women's basketball -- actually listening to most OU sports -- is better on the radio. Color me old school. The boob tube is overrated.

3. I've read two books in two weeks. This has to be a freaking record for me, in terms of pace. Credit the red room, my palatial reading space, complete with a plush red recliner. I plan to attack Aldous Huxley, some more Faulkner, the last half of James Frey's controversial memoir and more over the next few weeks.

4. "Dancing With The Stars" is way better this season than last. Don't know why. Perhaps I just like the contestants better. Perhaps the fact that they're adhering to the rules of these dances instead of just doing what they want appeals to the structure/order-loving Virgo in me.

My favorite after two performances? I'd say that Apolo, Laila, Joey, Ian and even Heather Mills are among my favorites. I'd say that folks should not be surprised if Ms. Mills with her prosthetic limb wins the whole thing. If I'm betting though, I'll say Laila and Joey are in the finale.

5. Just 3.5 more months until "Big Brother 8."

6. My yard is three times as green as it was last year at this time. Of course, my hideous yard-upkeep didn't help. I'm a new man this year though. Even if it's just weeds, I'm going to care for the ol' yard as if I owned the place.

7. I still have to do taxes, and I'm dreading it so much. I will owe this year, big time.

8. Amy Winehouse, who I have been yapping about for weeks, apparently set an American record for the highest Billboard 200 album debut for any British female solo artist -- ever. "Back To Black" is a brilliant, brilliant CD. Trend-setting, cool and should appeal to the critic as well as the masses. It is an early shoo-in for Album of the Year.

9. Royals are on top of the Padres 4-2 in the bottom of the 6th in the Cactus League. Kansas City and the Texas Rangers (my team) share a spring training complex, but I think they're at the Padres' place, wherever that is. It's Peoria, but is that Peoria, Ariz.?

10. NASCAR is excellent on the radio, too. In fact, again, I think I like it better on the radio than on TV. Perhaps, I'll just sell my TV.

No, wait, can't do that. Idol comes on tomorrow. You know what that means: More Sanjaya.

Quick funny from work today. A colleague says something about somebody looking like Sanjaya's offspring, to which I said, "Uh, Sanjaya will be fathering no children. I'm pretty sure of that ... "

11. Alex Gordon is 0-for-3 tonight with a walk, which means he's actually been to the plate four times. Gotta love the great game.