During Vietnam, that was what the daily military briefing was called, where the Army brass gave inflated body counts and told how we were winning the war. Now the winter meetings have the two o’clock follies, where all the GM’s meet to be grilled by reporters, then the scribes and TV types can’t bug them the other 23 hours. Baseball now has a media existence overshowing the on-field actual ball, bat, glove stuff. I swear the regular season could start in June and people are so taken by contracts, trades, steriods, Jeter’s latest girl, Selig’s opinion on instant replay, George Mitchell – many people wouldn’t notice. This is the real-life sports version of the movie “Network”.