This article is a week old, but since it's about baseball's off-season dealings there's no real expiration date. And since it's pretty interesting, I'll share it.

Here's ESPN.com's Jayson Stark's: "Boston's moves could pay big dividends".

Pretty much the gist is how the New York Yankees are paying CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett something like $432 million for many, many years, while the Boston Red Sox are only paying John Smoltz, Brad Penny, Takashi Saito and Rocco Baldelli $12.5 million guaranteed dollars (additional money is available in incentives).

I was going to try and draw some comparison between brash, flashy New Yorkers throwing their money around, and the more intellectual, precise Bostonians, but then I remembered the Celtics. Danny Ainge thinks he's Steinbrenner over there.

(But hey, it worked!)