Beisbol's Back!

With the first crack of the bat at a little after 8:05 EDT, the major league baseball season will be up and running. What I think now is my favorite sport will be back under way! As a Blue Jays fan, I am quite worried about this season. Expectations have been raised after a spending spree but I do not think this team is anything more than a .500 team in this division. I hope I am wrong.

Interestingly, almost nobody is talking about the fact that the Collective Bargaining Agreement is up after the end of the season. I hope that there will not be a work stoppage one year from now as I anticipate the start of the 2007 season.

I plan on attending my first home opener on Tuesday night since I attended the first ever for the Jays in April 1977. My own interest in baseball is accentuated by my Diamond Mind team - the Boardwalk Portsiders with my baseball draft weekend coming up next Saturday and Sunday - hopefully my son will join me on Sunday as we look deep into baseball's minor leagues for the next Jason Bay or Roger Clemens