Yesterday, when stuck for topics for this blog, I asked Twitter for help with suggestions and questions. Here are two:

If you haven’t heard, Gil Meche retired rather than continue to collect way too much money from the Royals to be a subpar or injured pitcher in 2011. Though he was owed $12 million, Meche said he didn’t feel right accepting money he wasn’t going to earn, even if the Royals understood the risk when they signed him to a big contract before the 2007 season.

What Meche did sounds noble, for sure, and it is such a distant outlier in the realm of regular human behavior that it has prompted a lot of hullabaloo the last couple of weeks. Mets fans, for one, are wishing that Ollie Perez opts to do the same.

But though that would be nice, neither Perez nor Meche should have any obligation to return money to the team that signed them. I never agree when fans fault players for the size of their contracts — the player should want as much money as he can possibly make, it’s the GM’s fault if it proves to be way too much.

Meche suggested he simply didn’t feel right taking money he didn’t deserve, and I appreciate that sentiment. But did he retire with the understanding that the Royals would re-invest his salary in the team? Because giving money back to an enormously wealthy person — Royals’ owner David Glass — seems a bit weird too.

I won’t into too much boring detail, but SNY is part-owned by Comcast and technically I am a Comcast employee. When news of the NBC/Comcast deal first came down over a year ago, I got a package at my house with a letter essentially saying, basically, everything’s cool, nothing’s changing for you and we should all be excited.

Something along those lines. I didn’t really read it all that closely; I was distracted because with the letter came — as special gift celebrating the deal or something — DVDs of Kindergarten Cop and The Bourne Ultimatum.

I figured they must have just sent an army of interns down to some DVD liquidation warehouse somewhere in the bowels of NBC and had them all shove two random movies into every package. And so I thought it was pretty funny that I happened to get Kindergarten Cop and The Bourne Ultimatum, since the former is absolutely hilarious in every way and the latter is a sequel and thus a funny thing to randomly send to someone.

Then  I came into work the next day and asked some of my co-workers what movies they got, and they all had Kindergarten Cop and The Bourne Ultimatum too. Why those two movies? You figure it had to be an overstock thing, right? But then does that mean they so overstocked those two movies that they had enough to send them to every Comcast employee? How many copies of Kindergarten Cop could they have possibly produced?