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.
Youth Is on the Menu
On most teams, I’ll be privileged to point out one or maybe two young men that could turn the undeniable sex appeal of potential into a full-on stargasm. On the Rays’ roster and in the minors, I can list eight, which is the best collection of young studs outside of one of Paul Lynde’s famed birthday parties:
- Scott Kazmir, LHP (the Rays are Fortunato to have him) (sorry, Mets fans; that’s not taking the high road after Victor-y) (sorry again)
- B.J. Upton, CF (you know, your average run-of-the-mill power-and-average-and-speed center fielder star)
- Carl Crawford, LF (fantasy steals star; get your Vince Coleman-with-a-batting-eye thrill here) (and how much does a fly ball pitcher want this outfield behind him?)
- Evan Longoria, 3B (I would tell you more about him, but the tears that form every time I see him hit a home run have caused my eyes to well up again and make it difficult to type)
- David Price, LHP (a lefty with a 94 mph fastball and an 87 mph slider that’s even better)
- Wade Davis, RHP (98 mph heat and 1-2 other great pitchers makes the loins quiver)
- Desmond Jennings, CF (three great center fielders in the same system? why not?)
- Reid Brignac, SS (and a great hitting shortstop that looks agile enough to hold the position)
Each of these young men would be the crown jewel of most minor league farm systems. Here, they’re just putting an awful lot of pressure on the Red Sox and Yankees to not ignore their own development programs in favor of expensive old men.
Tune in any night to lay claim on having seen them early in their careers.
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