This 75 degree day in late-March has reminded me that the baseball season is nearly upon us. It doesn't seem time, especially since my Rangers are surging and sitting tenuously in 6th place at the moment. However, I am powerless to argue against Commissioner Bud and the powers that be, who allow pitchers an catchers to report in mid-February.

I should mention that the only reasons that I'm paying even moderate attention at this early point in the year is a) the Yankees are in my face on TV right now and b) I had to draft my fantasy baseball team already. One of these teams will finish in first place this year and one of them will not. I'll leave it to you to figure out which team will finish where.

In any event, baseball is a sport that I used to love to attend in person. But now, between the $40 upper deck seats, the $7 beers, the $5 hot dogs and the sweaty subway ride to the Bronx, it's so much more enjoyable to sit and watch the game on TV. And if the insufferable John Sterling/Suzyn Waldman duo didn't broadcast on the radio, I'd probably do what I did as a kid and listen to the games on the radio

Anyway, this is all a long prelude to why I wrote this email. Rob Neyer of ESPN.com has started a blog on that very same website, and like everything else that he does, it's great. It's exactly what I'd always hoped he get, which is a forum to post his quick thoughts on baseball.

Labels: baseball, fantasy baseball, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, Rob Neyer