Change: Word of the Year.

Change. That seems to be the word of the year. Yesterday, the 49er’s showed that change might be the solution. I am not talking about the change at head coach [Thank you Mike Nolan.], but instead the change behind the center. Yes, J.T. O’ Sullivan might be Mike Martz’s little protégé, but his actions have directly lost games this year. Every time he throws a pick in the Red Zone, everyone has to remember he did not just give up 7 points to the other team, he gave up 14. Instead of scoring 7 points [which has to be assumed], he just gave 7 points to the other team, which is a net of -14. No NFL team can win consistently with this kind of play at quarterback. We got a peek at Shaun Hill last season during the end of the season; he gave us what Alex Smith [man, the Ryan Leaf of Northern California?] couldn’t: Touchdowns. When the 49er’s said that the starting job for quarterback was up for grabs this offseason, I was quietly rooting for Shaun Hill. Now that he has another shot at leading a team to winning ways, I truly hope that he takes advantage of this opportunity and proves to us if he has it or not. If he doesn’t that is fine, at least the organization will clearly know what they have to do during this offseason. If he does, that is great; we have been hiding the next Tom Brady.

Change has been heavily present in the online auction/marketplace recently too. Many opportunists have seen eBay’s current debacle as a chance to enter the market. There have been many innovative sites, such as Swoopo. I never had the chance to actually do the math on their site, but it seems like they are making a fortune. I was just thinking if they can control the increments bidding goes up by and they charge per bid, they would only need 200 bids on a Nintendo Wii at $1 per bid and a final auction price of $120. That means if each bid went up by ~50 cents people would be buying Wii’s at $120. The model is cool, but I think people will eventually get fed up with paying for bids and not winning anything.