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Two weeks in a day
What we learned last week:
Baseball is back, and nothing stops it from coming back, time after time, thing after thing, distraction after distraction. Baseball — the game, the event, the pulse — never, ever stops. It just goes ’round and ’round and ’round.
When pitchers and catchers reported this week, quite a few veterans needed directions to the complex and had a whole new set of threads.
There were about 37 seconds where everybody could safely say they believed every single word coming out of Alex Rodriguez’s mouth — and there are some who didn’t believe those 37 seconds, either.
There are many creative variations to the nickname A-Rod.
Yuri Sucart is not a KGB agent or the villain in “The Usual Suspects.” Angel Presinal is not actually the name of a performance-enhancing drug. “He took some Presinal and his numbers went all wacky.”
You can go home again. And home can actually be the Emerald City, if you’re named Junior and not Dorothy.
Manny Being Manny can be entertaining when he’s not even on a roster.
What we’ll learn this week:
What Dodger Blue looks like in the Arizona sun. And by Sunday, what Glendale’s new ballpark will look like with that hue and some black-and-white Sox.
Flip side, of course, is for the first time in more than a half-century we’ll find out what Dodgertown in Vero Beach looks like dark, with no games going on all spring. Thanks for the memories, Vero.
We’ll also see how the Tribe’s new Goodyear digs play this week. It’s a long way from Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, where they last roosted in Arizona back in the ’90s before the roundtrip to FLA.
What CC Sabathia looks like pitching for the Yankees. (And fill in the two blanks from there, on down the line.)
Exactly who will play for whom in the World Baseball Classic, and we’ll all officially begin to wonder — can it possibly top 2006?
Possibly, just possibly, Mannywood will made its 2009 debut in Glendale.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Bring the world to ball
for a springtime gathering –
once every three years
MLBlog Shoutout
Our good pal and MLB-dot cohort Tom Singer recently did an interesting study of arb vs. FA, one that actually makes sense to the mathematically impaired. Eh, not that anyone at The Grind has that problem, of course.
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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