While for some people the start of spring training puts them to sleep, for me it is an exciting time of year despite the fact I am a Mets fan and have nothing to look forward to. While on vacation in Florida last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Phils at Yanks Spring Training opener. While you can't judge much from one spring training game, a couple of observations:
- They made a huge deal about George passing away. They handed out pins with his name on it, had a military color guard, and even had Navy jets flyover. Probably going to be the theme for the season, although you will still read many articles trying to cast him in a negative light.
- Colon was only okay versus the Phillies backup team and there are already rumors that the Yankees are looking to trade for Liriano.
- A-Rod hit the ball well. Also, one potential replacement for Jeter, Eduardo Nunez, looked like he was playing hard. Hit the ball well and had a stolen base. Reading up on him though looks like a lot of raw talent but not consistent.
- Phillies fans were there in full force preparing to do awful things this year like vomit on small children.
- Nothing to do with this game, but on the Mets front Ollie Perez looked awful his first time out...someone please pay this bum to go away and stop coming out to play.
- The biggest news in Tampa was the giant house that Derek Jeter just built. Apparently it is about the size of a small Best Buy.
I know we have a lot of basketball left (and hockey for whoever was defending the sport in response to Bottle), but personally I'm looking forward to baseball.
No comments:
Post a Comment