The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.Even for baseball, where winter can seem as endless as a trek through the desert with Lawrence of Arabia, this has been a long and cold one. Long before the Alex Rodriguez revelations, the free-agent market slowed to a crawl, bogged down by the economic downturn. Rather than getting treated to the usual flurry of Hot Stove transactions, we got a series of big-money Yankee signings and an endless stream of updates on the on-again, off-again, still-unresolved Manny Ramirez negotiations.
