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.
The Juan Pierre Puzzler
Though there’s no obvious proof, we’ve always suspected Joe Torre hid a dark secret from the New York press for his entire tenure as Yankees manager. Now that he serves another team in another league in a quiet backwater media market like Los Angeles, he’ll be able to express his love for a Boston institution: Car Talk.
It’s easy to imagine Joe chuckling to the very self-amused NPR mechanic-philosophers on his drive to Yankee Stadium each Sunday morning. Oh, those wacky fellows really know what it’s like to be a guy, y’know? And they’re brothers that pick on each other but love each other in the end. Joe can relate.
However, as Joe drives into Holman Stadium this spring to manage his new wards, he may notice a new Puzzler that seems awfully familiar.
“Hey, Tommy… do you remember last week’s Puzzler?”
“Of course I do, Ray!”
“What is it?”
“The Puzzler is that I can never remember last week’s Puzzler!”
(45 seconds of chortling)
“Okay, Tommy, here’s last week’s Puzzler: why wouldn’t you want Jeff Kent, Juan Pierre, and Nomar Garciaparra to start 130 games for your baseball team?”
“Yes.”
“Yes what?”
“Yes, that’s last week Puzzler. I remembered!”
(30 seconds of guffaws)
“Okay… why wouldn’t I want Jeff Kent, Juan Pierre, and Nomar Garciaparra to start 130 games for my baseball team?”
“That’s right.”
“Hmm. Is it because I want them to start 162 games?”
“HA! God no.”
“Huh. Okay. (pause) I have the answer to this week’s Puzzler, Ray!”
“What is it, Tommy?”
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