Spring Training Things

[DOUGHBOYS]

Everybody is in the best shape of their lives.

All past injuries will be prevented by the off season training.

All sore shoulders are good with a couple of days rest....until they're not.

This team has a chance to go all the way.

The new faces on the club bring a new energy.

Fans are more excited this year than they have ever been.....Not so fast Cubs and Mets fans.

100's of players are capable of the 30/30 club.....the reality is they're talking rbi/runs.

After watching just parts of two spring training games....the commercials are already old.

This new manager will make things exciting....Has ANY Manager made baseball exciting?

First of spring, every 19 and 20 year old will make the Big League roster....end of spring... AA and AAA

Joel Zumaya has a surgery scheduled.

JD Drew is producing as much this spring as he has in past springs....Only now, when hurting himself turning pages of his own scrapbook, he'll have to foot the bill.

A guy like Jim Thome can work his ass off to play first base once a week...
a younger David Ortiz can not get in first base shape enough to play during interleague games.

The closer conundrum. The experts say Jansen should be closing.
The Manager says Guerra.
Same thing happened a couple of years ago with Marmol/Gregg.
Experts- Marmol, Manager- Gregg
The Managers always wins. He gets the peripherals in the eighth, not the ninth.

Adam Dunn is a lock for at least 38 home runs.... Never mind, last years notes.

Roy Oswalt is better than 'close to home'. He's home.

Javy Vazquez looks to be a wasted pick for slow draft teams.

At the end of the World Series, Scott Boras was talking multi years for Johnny Damon.
Now, ANY years.

Mid-season form:
Chipper is sitting out a couple of games.

Just a thought to finish it up.
Phil Hughes should go to the bullpen and Freddie Garcia should start for the Yankees in their rotation.
I don't care who is more deserving. It should be done for the sake of trivia,
With a staff of Sabathia, Kuroda, Pineda, Nova, and Garcia; The Yankees rotation becomes the first in Major League history to have a five man rotation with every hurler ending their name with an 'A'.

[Winston's Empire]

Good stuff as always and thanks for the laughs...
So true on Thome and Ortiz. Man, what most men wouldn't do to have a crack at playing the game of baseball! Thome is a Hall of Famer.
I would say that Billy Martin always made baseball exciting!

[DOUGHBOYS]

Thanks for the reply, Max.
I keep telling myself that I'm going to scale back my posts, but something like Ozzie Guillen keeps dragging me back
Thanks again.

[Edwards Kings]

I would love to see Ortiz play first more often. Such a highlight reel waiting to happen. During inter-league a couple of years ago, I was in attendance when he started at first. Since church softball, I do not think I have seen a ball hit a guy square in the pocket on an infield throw...and bounce out. I think he had three errors that game. Classic desecrated hitter in the field.