I could be wrong, but I believe the word "January" comes from the Latin word "le January" which means: "dark, dreary and depressing." With its short overcast days and long cold nights, I can't think of a month with less sex appeal. Heck, even psychologists discovered the most depressing day of the year falls in January.
This is the time when we take inventory of our lives and set goals or resolutions to go along with the lofty aspirations we attach to the New Year. It all coincides with the arrival of our W-2 tax forms that bluntly remind us how little money we earned in the previous year. For me, it's the time when I am reminded that I should have been a baseball player. Why? Just look at some of these contracts that these former Chicago players received.
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| Fukudome has 5-1/2 million reasons to smile. |
Geovany Soto milked the Rangers for $1.5 million after hitting a robust .198 last season.
After being released by the White Sox with a lousy .171 average, Kosuke Fukudome went and signed a three-year $5.5 million contract to play for a Japanese team.
While the rest of us are groaning next January, these three guys will be laughing when they look at their W-2s.
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