Checking Drudge... looks like Katie Couric wants out of CBS.
Katie Couric makes $15,000,000 a year to anchor a third-place evening newscast.
Hey, there's people who make more for doing less for worse.
They're called close-to-retirement professional athletes on the disabled list.
Let's pick someone at random... say... oh... Jeff Bagwell.
Jeff Bagwell made $20,000,000 a year to do... well, nothing for the Houston Astros in 2006 besides show up at Spring Training to ruin their chances of collecting on the insurance policy they had on him.
He had surgery in 2005. He rehabbed. It was obvious that he wasn't coming back to everyone but him.
But he got that opportunity to get into the World Series and get swept.
If you had put Katie Couric in an Astros uniform, she probably could have done more at the plate than Baggie did.
Then, he made $7,000,000 in 2007 for doing... well, nothing again.
Okay okay. So he showed up to a few events, hung out in the clubhouse for moral support, yadda yadda. But as a paid baseball player, he was severely lacking in the baseball department.
Say what you will about Katie, even if she's not a serious journalist, at least she goes through the motions and tries.
And when she realizes it's time to hang it up and go back to being a chatshow puppet like Larry King, she's man enough to admit it and start the process of hanging up her cleats to make room for someone who can.
So, here's to Katie... and I'm looking forward to watching the CBS Evening News With Jeff Bagwell. (Would Craig Biggio sign on as a correspondent?)