Shots in the Dark

The Times reports that the Yankees are close to signing Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, which would make their resigning of Robinson Cano less likely.

Huzzah!

With the addition of Ellsbury, who turned 30 on Sept. 11, the Yankees would still have money to bring back Robinson Cano and stay under their stated goal of $189 million for their payroll. However, Cano would have to accept the club’s current price of seven years and about $170 million to $175 million. The Yankees offered Cano seven years for about $160 million and seemed unfazed Tuesday by reports that he was talking to the Seattle Mariners, who have been trying for years to add offense.

Here is the essential comparison between the two players: Jacoby Ellsbury stole home off Andy Pettitte. Robinson Cano doesn’t run out ground out balls.

I love that the Yankees don’t seem like they’re trying to sign Cano all that hard, and hope that my theory—that secretly they don’t really want to resign him—is true. I don’t know if this exchange would make the Yankees a better team, but it would certainly make them a more likable one….

In Los Angeles, a woman named Cecilia Abadie received a moving violation for driving while wearing Google glass—a citation, as the Times puts it, usually given to drivers who may be distracted by a video screen.

She has pleaded not guilty…but she is guilty, guilty, guilty!

Not to mention that she could kill somebody.

Meanwhile, in Seattle, some other tech bonehead was asked to leave a restaurant because he refused to stop wearing his Google Glass.

Fascinating to me how Google is force-feeding a product to a culture that not only largely doesn’t seem to want it, but is now actively fighting it. I wonder if the Google folks are so isolated in a Goo-bubble that they have failed to anticipate this hostility-and don’t understand it.

Addendum: a Valleywag commenter has coined a term that must make Google nervous: “Glasshole.”