I love Spring Training, but this year everything seems so odd. Things are always a little odd this time of year, but it feels even more so this year.
First, there’s the interest factor. Spring Training is an exciting time of year. I like seeing guys first report, I like seeing the interviews, I like hearing the first pops of the glove when pitcher start practicing… I also like watching the first games. BUT… you can’t really watch a whole game and then the games get a little tedious because of that after a few games in.
Second, you don’t REALLY know what’s going on. Did we lose 10-0 because we were coming at it to look at young guys? Was it because guys were just trying new things out? You just can’t get too much of a handle on what the result really means in the grand scheme.
Third, this year there are two things that are confusing things. One a little more than the other. The first of those things is the WBC. Some guys are gearing up for that and then there going to be gone for a few weeks. Not sure how to judge that. And second is the changes in rules. I love the clock actually, but I feel like I will like it better in a few months when everyone understands how to play with it a bit more.
Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
The Review
Here’s what happened on the blog last week:
- Monday: Felix Millan
- Tuesday: Gary Pettis, Don August
- Wednesday: John Russell
- Thursday: Russ Davis
- Friday: Jayhawk Owens
- Saturday: Donn Pall
- Sunday: Ruben Amaro
I blew a chance to have a Danger-Russel / Russ #twofortuesday. Oh well…. No themes at all for this week.
The Preview
Here’s what I have coming up for this week:
- Monday: Yes we Kennedy…
- Tuesday: Foucault’s pendulum…
- Tuesday: It takes a Villone…
- Wednesday: At your Service…
- Thursday: Drinkin’ Hennessey…
- Friday: That’s the Wrona answer…
- Saturday: Nate the Great…
- Sunday: Men in Black…
Just continuing through the backlog this week with no #twofortuesday theme.
Other Notes
Another good week this week. It was nice to see after a pretty bad one a couple weeks ago. I had 21 successful returns this week. There were really only two stragglers over 200 days and one was a pretty good one like last week. Luis Gonzalez was at 1075 days and Stephone Paige was at 242. Unfortunately Paige was a stamp (and not even a good one at that). I got back a paid success from Bill Gullickson too.
The Recent TTM Success page is updated.
Have a great week!