Play ball!!!

What a great time of year we’re looking at right now. The weather might actually start getting consistently warmer. You seem to notice more birds. Flowers are slowly creeping out of the ground. Leaves are budding on the trees. There is a general sweetness to life that permeates–

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Screw that– it’s steroid baseball season!!

Today officially begins the 2008 baseball season. I don’t count those two games Oakland and Boston played in Japan, nor do I count the Braves-Nationals game last night. It’s not Opening Day until all 30 teams are playing. More importantly, my St. Louis Cardinals. Should prove to be a very… mediocre year for the Redbirds. It’s quite a different team, albeit one with the same problem- they STILL have no pitching. They have Wainwright, but everyone else is so friggin’ inconsistent. But, stranger things have happened. That’s one good thing about the Comedy Central division- it’s almost always wide open from April 1 to October 1. Hell, Milwaukee almost won the division last year until they imploded with two games left in the season and literally handed the division title to the Cubs.