Here Comes The Sun!
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
The great poet, George Harrison, wrote those lines with some help from Eric Clapton, to celebrate the return of baseball from its annual hibernation. Ok, maybe that wasn't the inspiration, but doesn't it seem fitting? From Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" to John Fogerty's "Centerfield" the renewal of the baseball season has always been a reason to celebrate.
And so the winter of our discontent ends. Tomorrow we will have stories about pitchers and catchers and within two weeks boxscores will resurface in our morning paper. The glorious summer cannot be far behind.
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Huge Beatles fan, Huge baseball fan. Somehow it doesn't fit though.
I get the sentiment though, bring it on!
Posted by: blmeanie | February 14, 2011 07:22 AM |
The Winter of our discontent has ended? Really? Are you trying to rile the gods of weather?!? It's still the middle of February. The way this winter has gone so far, I fear we've got snowstorms on the horizon to oh, April or so.
Posted by: Greg | February 14, 2011 09:35 AM |
It's fifty five effin degrees here and the icicles are shrinking by the minute! This is a wonderful thing in an area that got 4 feet of snow in 3 weeks - with no melt in between blizzards. I have drifts in which I could hide small horses! So yippee, this is a wonderful day and going to be a wonderful week.
Now about baseball, yep let's get back to baseball. Playing baseball to win or lose games and maybe some nice jewelry at season's end.
The biggest issue I have with Yankees baseball is that the majority of the coverage is by media muffins who compete to see how much crap they can find to stir up and bleat in a sensational headline. An example? Is CC going to opt out? Well garsh, I jes dunno fellas!
Play ball (soon, please).
Brackman? Nova? Garcia? Montero? Lez tawk about basebawl playahs and how day might hep us win a few games ...
- end rant.
:-)
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February 14, 2011 04:46 PM
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Greg
You're right, my apologies to the weather gods. Please, no more snow!
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February 14, 2011 05:19 PM
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Hey Peter: the link for commenting to your most recent post wasn't functioning.
Re Pujols: No way would I trade Texeira to make room for Pujols. Pujols is the best hitter in baseball. But the question is what is the marginal benefit of Pujols over Texeira? The cost of adding Pujols would never be worth that marginal benefit.
Now if Steinbrenner wants to gift his money to the fans (and make up for the fraud committed againts the taxpayers by paying no estate taxes) by signing Pujols and putting him in left field, fine. That would give you the best hitting Yankee team I've ever seen.
Posted by: Corey | February 17, 2011 10:01 AM |
Thanks for letting me know Corey, it should be fixed now.
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February 17, 2011 01:29 PM
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