Talking Baseball

Blogger is suppose to have this publish-by-email feature, but I wrote an email last Monday and it ain't showed yet. Suffice to say: I feel Opening Day should be a Federal holiday. Let's dump President's Day. February is too short to need a day off, and baseball is way more important that Presidents.

I started umping in the Central Springfield Little League, which started its season this weekend. I managed to commit my yearly spring suncreen blunder; fortunately I was wearing long pants and a face mask so the damage is primarily forearm in nature. I was only umping 9 year olds, who do not throw hard enough to injure even though I took one off the mask, three or four off of the chest protector, a few off of the shin guards and a dozen off the shoes. I am not bruised but I am sore from hunkering to call the strike zone and I may have tweaked my elbow calling strikes. Not that I had to call many strikes--the kids, pitching for the first time, were lucky to get it between the batters boxes. Which of course led to the prolonged hunkering and resultant aching quads.

The Nationals home opener is Thursday night, they did a nice job with the tickets. Here's the Opening Night ticket and the Season ticket book (as well as the tickets themselves). They've played some exciting ball early so it should be a fun year.

I've been enjoying the preview of the MLB Extra Innings package. I've thought of paying for it with the money I didn't spend on the NHL Center Ice package, but judging by the flipping I've been doing just to catch at bats by guys on my fantasy team, I think that's a recipe for never getting off the couch.

P.S. Spellcheck tried to replace "NHL" with "NIL", which is about right. Also, it tried to replace umping with "humping", which, if you'll note the placement of "umping" above, would have been really bad.