Everything Baseball

Baseball season has officially begun. So for the next 100 weeks (or so it seems), you'll be seeing baseball scores and highlights. Also means that there's an extra hour of Baseball Tonight on ESPN for that same time. 162 games are played before the post season can begin. Here are some predictions/observations for the upcoming season:

1. By the end of April, the Cubs will be mathematically eliminated from post-season contention (as usual)
2. St. Louis will not make the postseason after winning it all last year.
3. Detroit Tigers could be dangerous again this year... hopefully the Twins can keep pace with them again.
4. Braves are still looking like an "ok" team but they did beef up their bullpen for this season. Hopefully that inspires the starting rotation a bit again and they return to their championship ways. Smoltz doesn't have too much left in him, Hampton is way overpaid for as little as he actually plays, and Hudson might surprise some folks this year. Andruw is also on the last year of his contract so they need to make a move this year!
5. The Yankees are still the devil of all baseball teams. And just as I was starting to be indifferent about Andy Pettitte, he goes back to the Spankees - Jerk! I hate them all!
6. Mets and Red Sox aren't much better than the Yankees anymore. $$$$$$$
7. I still consider most baseball players whimps. A hockey player will get knocked unconscious and they still want to go back into the game. Some of the greatest players play 20+ years in the NHL, barely have any bones left that haven't been broken, and still want to just be stitched up so he can go finish the game. (Red Wings back in 1st again)
8. The Barry Bonds controversy is going to heat up very quickly as he's still hitting a lot of home runs in the preseason. This is going to get old very quick (as if it isn't already).
   

Big game tonight as a repeat of the NCAA football championship - Ohio State, The vs Florida.... again.... doesn't seem fair does it? The game starts at 8:20 or something, meaning it will be over at 11 something since they give each team extra timeouts to drag the event out longer than it should. I can finish anywhere from 5th (OSU win) to 15th (Florida win) in most of my brackets. Upper 25% which isn't half bad. Just not my usual dominance that I'm used to.

Tim was fired on The Apprentice last night.... and not sure I agree with how that whole episode went down. Arrow designated themselves someone to focus on and Tim was an easy target. I liked Tim and agreed with his defense in the end. I hate pretty much all 3 of the surviving Arrow team and hope they lose a couple of weeks in a row to get rid of them all. I seriously hate Frankie....

What else.... Happy April! Enjoy the rain (could be snow - remember that and appreciate it).

Haiku of the Day
Hundred sixty two
That's pretty much half the year
I hate the Yankees!

Entertainment of the Day - there are a lot of good baseball movies though to mention today. Brewster's Millions, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Major League (Numbers 1 AND 2... ignore anything after that), Fever Pitch, The Natural (oldie but a goodie), Mr. 3000, and Fever Pitch (Which is shown constantly on HBO I believe). Take your pick from any of those.

Weblink of the Day - There are a lot of us nerds in the world today. This guy figured out how to build a robot to bowl a perfect 300 game in Wii Bowling everytime! Something to do on the weekends:)