Play Ball!

So who's excited for this year's baseball season? BG, for one! I love April baseball. It's been five months since a meaningful game was played. They've been teasing us with pretend games with split squads for a month and a half. Starting pitchers will finally go more than six inning; maybe.

But who scheduled the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians to open the season with a night game? It had to be freezing! The opening games are supposed to be about optimism for the coming season for the fans. I can't picture much optimism coming from 40 thousand people sitting outside, freezing in 40-degree weather and rain that is Chicago weather for most of April.

I can understand wanting the World Champions for your opening game, but how 'bout scheduling them against the Angels (in Anaheim--not LA!), or Texas, or Tampa or Minnesota--cold, but indoors?

Well, it's the 2006 season. Let's go Redsox!!