So I get excited for baseball and settle in to watch the game on ESPN last night. I had started to develop a headache, but chalked it up to a full weekend and weird sleep patterns. But game time, the headache hadn’t gone away.  I watched the ceremonial first pitch get thrown out. I also watched the likes of Lastings Milledge and Elijah Dukes standing on the field (and suddenly remembered why I’m not such a big Nationals fan). The game is about to begin and even before the first pitch is thrown, Joe Morgan tells us (and Jon Miller says he agrees) that the season hasn’t started yet because he doesn’t “count” the two games in Japan. Baseball begins when it begins in America.
And that’s when I shut the television off.  Fell asleep not too long after.
So I got a really good night’s sleep and I didn’t have to listen to Joe Morgan all night. Win/win.
While I understand that the way the season began was more than odd, (Two exhibition games in Japan, the season opener and another game to follow, three exhibition games in Los Angeles…) how ridiculous is it to ignore those games just because they weren’t played in America? The possible racist and American elitist attitudes Morgan and Miller were displaying aside, were the two teams playing not MLB teams? Did both those games not count in the standings?  What an arrogant, ignorant way to start off a season of Sunday Night Baseball.
I’m just glad I got some sleep.
On a happier note, Kyle pitched 2 scoreless innings yesterday. He did give up an unearned run (sorry Clay) but still pitched pretty well. Buchholz pitched well too, for the most part, until he somewhat imploded. So let’s hope a normal schedule settles everyone down – including our closer.
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