There’s 200 days or so of baseball to come this season and it can be quite intimidating to jump into the deep end of the baseball viewing pool.
To help, Refrigerator Logic is providing a list of reasons to watch every Major League Baseball team for the 2008 season. Anyone that’s read all the team lists should be able to pull up the MLB schedule on any day in early June and find reasons to enjoy any contest on the board that night.
Please join in the comments to add your own reasons. Tell everyone why your team is worth three and a half hours of their lives on any given day. Make us care and we’ll be there with a tasty beverage and an appreciation for what you feel each time your team takes the field.
You Do What You Do, Right?
Dusty Baker could not be more of a known quantity if he were defined by wavelengths of the orange-red line. He’s precisely what you expect when you hire him: he hates anything invented or discovered before he turned 35. He believes runs are driven in through burly effort, not a result of having men on base. He believes young pitchers were placed on this earth for him to bury mercilessly. He has a keen understanding of genetics. As Christina Kahrl points out repeatedly at Baseball Prospectus, he knows how to use his son as a human shield at press conferences.
He’ll change course only after ramming into the brick wall a few times. He will always favor the older man, single-handedly turning back age discrimination trends in America. He enjoys long walks in the park as long as they’re not with his batters. He’ll happily admit wrong as long as it’s yours.
And, hey, he’s great for a quote and/or an ejection. That’s quality viewing, right?
