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 Hardest Working Man in the Business We Call Baseball
Meet Dave Groeschner. Having taken the mantle of head trainer from the legendary Stan Conte last season, he now faces a starting lineup that could have seven starters at least 33 years of age and a bullpen more fragile than a sugar egg in a San Francisco drizzle.
Also, Ray Durham travels on road trips snuggled in bubble wrap and crumpled newspaper.
If Groeschner is successful, he’ll keep the old and mediocre talent out on the field. If he can’t keep the elderly mobile, the young unimpressive talent drafted after the first round each year (as GM Brian Sabean dumped first rounder after first rounder in almost every draft) will get a chance to work their way up to mere sufficiency at a much lower cost.
Albert Einstein (the official cheap quote machine of Refrigerator Logic!) once suggested that insanity could be defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Hopefully, Groeschner can keep the Veteran Goodness healthy long enough to make them decent trade bait for Sabean to flip for the real future in San Francisco… (more…)
