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OD A to Z
Opening Day, by the letters:
And away we go . . .
Bonifacio! Simply Bonifacio!
CC? Not even so-so.
Don’t Mess with Texas.
Eight homers with the roof closed. That’s enough, Chase.
Felix Hernandez, keep pitching like this and you’ll earn the King nickname.
Griffey. Mariners. Homer. Woo-hoo.
Hiroki Kuroda: A stealth ace, and the best Japanese starter this side of Dice-K.
Inside-the-park homers are fun. Just ask . . . Bonifacio!
Johan Santana looks like he’s got it going on, as usual, with the win.
K-Rod made sure of it.
Lee’s numbers fell off the Cliff pretty quick, eh?
Manny didn’t do much, didn’t have to.
New York, Eww York.
Orioles have some talent.
Pirates undefeated, Phillies winless.
Quentin and the rest of the White Sox will be back in action Tuesday.
Rays-Red Sox still on tap for Tuesday, too.
Steals are back in vogue — at least if Bonifacio! has anything to do with it.
Teixeira didn’t have much of a homecoming in Baltimore.
Unbelievable: Tony Clark and Felipe Lopez (?!??!!!) both homer from both sides of the plate.
Verlander. Seriously. What happened?
Webb didn’t feel too good after his first start, not good news for the snakes.
X Nady got himself an RBI ground-rule double, plus his name starts with X so he always gets in the A to Z things.
Yawkey Way will be hopping Tuesday, won’t it?
Z, Big. He was.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Think back, oh Junior,
Back to the springtime of youth –
Once a star, always
Some moving stories
There’s something cool about a 6-foot-10 guy called Big Unit wearing a uni that says “Giants” on it. Kinda fits, no?
There’s something curious about a young superstar Matt Holliday having been traded, putting on the green and gold after wearing purple and black his whole career.
There’s something odd about seeing John Smoltz donning Red Sox and nothing that has little tomahawks on it.
And there’s nothing quite like that first week of Spring Training, is there?
Most of the players hitting the fields for the first time in 2009 are wearing the same uniforms they were wearing a year earlier, but plenty are donning new duds, and some changing colors for the first time. <p />
Randy Johnson has worn six uniforms in his career — seven if you count purple and red Diamondbacks/D-backs versions — but this one does seem to fit the XL in him. Others turn your head more abruptly, though. For example:
Seeing Holliday taking swings in the cage with Eric Chavez and A’s boomerang Jason Giambi, wow. And Smoltz going through drills alongside Josh Beckett and Dice-K? Weird.
But fun. Interesting. And perhaps more so if you’re not a fan of the Rockies or of the Braves, something to anticipate.
Like Trevor Hoffman’s first save opportunity for the Brewers, or Big Unit’s first home start at AT&T Park. Or whatever CC, AJ and Tex do in pinstripes. The list goes on.
An interesting crop of changelings, along with the boomerang boys like Griffey and Giambi, give us all ample opportunity to refresh our view of the stars this spring.
Yakyu haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Glavine three left turns
to greener pastures again…
still in Atlanta
Bottom line
Wow, a day when stuff off the field didn’t trump the stuff on the field and in the uniforms. What in the name of Yuri Sucart is going on around here anyway?
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