Baseball is back, with so many games going on at once it’s hard to keep up!<\/p>\n
Tom Glavine pitched brilliantly last night to take the first Major League win of 2007 against the Cards. Great to see the video montage of the last ten years of baseball on Five as well before the game. Particularly brought back memories of the Moose man Todd Macklin; I learned a lot about the game from his analysis in my formative baseball years and I remember being genuinely sad to see him head back home. Hope things are going well for him. JC’s certainly a worthy replacement though.<\/p>\n
You probably would have got short odds on Dontrelle Willis being the first pitcher to get a win on day two of the season. It’s going to be a long, long year in Washington.<\/p>\n
So far I’ve watched bits of four games: the Blue Jays and the Tigers (neither Halladay nor Bonderman quite looked on top of their game, which is to be expected I guess), the Indians and the White Sox (the Tribe took to Contreras like it was batting practice – White Sox fans will be hoping it was a blip rather than a continuation of his second half struggles from last year), the D-Rays and the Yankees (this will likely sum up Tampa’s season: some exciting young talent but not quite enough to get the job done – this year at least), and the Phillies-Braves game that has just finished (two bombs for Renteria and Brian McCann carried on hitting as if he’s never been away).<\/p>\n
I think I’ll go for the less obvious choice now and watch Brandon Webb face the Rockies rather than the Red Sox against the Royals. What a luxury of choices us lucky MLB.TV viewers have!<\/p>\n
Apparently it was a big night on Coronation Street tonight. Why don’t I feel that I’ve missed out?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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