We're about four hours from the first San Francisco Giants spring training game of 2011. I don't know whether it will be broadcast on the KNBR website, or on XM, or if it's only on that mlb.tv scam*, but I have a hunch that it probably won't be shown on TV here in the backwoods of Los Angeles.
It's a hell of a thing. The Giants will be starting a mix of World Series Champion stars and Aaron Rowand, and Lincecum will be starting on the hill for an inning or two. It's terribly exciting. Look at that picture up there! The San Francisco Giants won the World Series last year. THEY DID THAT. At this time last year, they were expected to finish third or fourth in the division.
Spring training and 2011 baseball opens here and expands before us, people. Will Mark De Rosa's wrist disintegrate when he fields his first short-hop? Will Pablo Sandoval's girdle burst open at an inopportune time, revealing that he fooled us all during the offseason? Will Jonathan Sanchez be the new and improved Jonathan Sanchez from the first 150 games of 2010, or will he turn into Todd Wellemeyer, Part 2? There's so much we don't know.
I will certainly try to catch as much spring training as I can. Hopefully Buster "What it is Right Now" Posey and Brandon "The Risen Christ" Belt will knock the cover off the ball and make everyone else on the team look like a pile of Aaron Rowands. Whatever the case, go Giants!
And more importantly, go baseball. Go baseball.
was reflecting on your Giants and the amazingness of last season earlier today when I DL'd the MLB 11 demo and there was Tim Lincecum and Kung Fu Panda and the beautiful ballpark and lol Aubrey Huff and it was like how on earth did anybody but the Phillies come out of the NL anyway? all of which = lol *yes*
ReplyDeletealso I was really hoping your asterisk was going to lead somewhere because I am eager to hear your further thoughts on the mlb.tv scam as you call it. I would pay literally twice the going rate if they would do away with the blackouts. as it stands however I will make mine gameday audio because it is cheap and you get literally everything and actually Marconi invented radio specifically for baseball and in truth it has yet to be surpassed as a means of transmitting not just baseball but, you guessed it, baseball *feelings*.
Go Giants.