Well, baseball season is drawing near. Time to dust off those gloves and cook up some hotdogs as the Mrs. bakes some apple-pie. Or something like that.

Baseball is one of those silly sports where during the off-season I find it boring and ...well, just boring. Not like Football which I always love. But once the season fires up it's hard not to get excited about it.

I thought I'd brows Fox Sports' "Power Rankings" just to see how my lowly Indians are expected to play. Well, they have them ranked #2. Kinda mixed feelings about that; it's great to see our team put up there and shown some respect. But being the very pessemistic fan one becomes after rooting for ANY cleveland sports team, all I can think is "Great, from the top there's only one dirrection to travel--down!". I almost would rather see them forcast as the middle of the pack team. Oh well, play ball!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

For Red Sox nation, it will be interesting to see if Dice-K can live up to his billing (and paycheck!)

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Bring back Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

How bout dem Cubs?

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

A local columnist, Ken Hoffman, always uses this time of year to bring out an old (and admittedly bad) joke.

If your team loses its first home game, it won't be able to serve beer for the rest of the season. Why?

Because it would have lost its opener.

(All together now. Groan!)

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance or stupidity.
Isaac Asimov

Based on what we saw in Spring Training, the Red Sox have good pitching and very weak hitting (a bit of a reversal from recent years).

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Forming opinions as we speak

re: Tribe

I will go offer a prayer at my shrine to 'Immortal' Joe Azcue, Fred 'Wingy' Whitfield and 'Stunning' Steve Dunning.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

I will do likewise, re the Mets, at the Most Holy Tabernacle of the Marvelous Marvin Eugene Thronberry.

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I'm excited to see if the Tigers can continue their magic from last season. Maroth is back, but Kenny Rogers already found his way to the 15 day DL.

Was last year a fluke? Time will tell.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

If anyone remembers my general complaining and whining over getting the shaft from the Baseball package and DirectTV (they told us we'd be recieving NO Tribe games - the only reason we bought the package - AFTER we'd paid, and refused to give us a refund), we got a nice email on our digital cable system yesterday (yes, we switched ) - ALL Indians games will be broadcast for free on a new channel!

OH.YES.BABY!!!

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"I have this theory that the Apollo missions were faked when NASA found out that general relativity was wrong because the Earth was expanding due to the Sun's iron core being influenced by magnetic waves from the electric universe after being perturbed by Planet X and thereby causing global warming. Where should I start a thread about this?" ~ ToSeek

"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

I expect the discussions about Bonds to get really hot as he closes in on the HR mark.

Anybody read that book, In the Shadows, or something like that. I've heard a little about it, but not much. Apparently a pretty well researched read about rampant use of steroids in baseball, including very damning evidence on Bonds.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Yeah, satelite and for the most part digital cable is ruining sports. I understand having to buy one of those outragously expensive sports packages if you want to get ALL the games. But when they make it so you can't even get the local team games without buying a package, that's just wrong. I was loving it when the FCC was talking about forcing cable companies to offer the option to just purchase certian channels. Hopefully one day that will come true.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

I don't really follow mlb, I'm more a hockey nut. I will say Go Jays! The biggest issue for them, the past few seasons, has had to be bullpen depth. They have one heck of a batting lineup though.

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" The universe is running away
I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Okay Mak, you've made me dig into my Casey Stengel quotes.

Go Astros!

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Scienara: A rejection of reason and evidence.

Now there will be a well-deserved asterisk!

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Funny, that 1969 squad won the World Series! Managed by Gil Hodges.

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Bleh, I'll be focused on another future Hall of Famer as he approaches 3,000 hits, the Astros' Craig Biggio.

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Scienara: A rejection of reason and evidence.

For us Mariners fans, hope springs anew every April. And dies about two weeks later. This year about half the players are guys I never heard of.

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Cum catapultae proscribeantur tum soli proscripti catapultas habeant.

I think you can already find his photo in the MLB Big Book of Words and Phrases, under "Class Act."

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance or stupidity.
Isaac Asimov

Edgar Martinez.

The Greatest Ever.

My Edgar collection is HUGE

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"I have this theory that the Apollo missions were faked when NASA found out that general relativity was wrong because the Earth was expanding due to the Sun's iron core being influenced by magnetic waves from the electric universe after being perturbed by Planet X and thereby causing global warming. Where should I start a thread about this?" ~ ToSeek

"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher