Archie Bunker's Army

Some reasons we know Spring Training has arrived: "I dominated that era," Pedro began in the most succinct yet typically cryptic hilarious early moment of the Steroid Spring. "And I did it clean." Leave it to Pedro, of course, to cut through the rubbish and get to the heart of the Cheat Clemens Controversy . Everyone's Happy: Rick Peterson seems to be allowing his excitement to verge on the obscene - hope Willie's got something to clean the side of his pants off with later... "This year, tell Jimmy Rollins WE'RE the team to beat." An early surprise after only a day was not the rapid recovery of Duaner Sanchez , who we commend from afar for reporting in a semblance of shape this season, eager to prove and eager to put a miserable past behind him, but El Capitan, Carlos Beltran who took the unusual step not only of speaking, but speaking in bold and flagrant terms, albeit slightly unoriginally given the comments of NL MVP Jimmy Rollins last S...

Manager or Court Jester? In a way, I'm starting to feel nauseous already about the prospects of Willie at the helm of this Titanic Championship craft. Especially when he makes idiotic comments like he did at the All Hail Johan Press Conference and General Giddiness Buffet when he said, straight-face and all: “We felt good about ourselves going into spring training as it was,” Sorry? What was that? Willie needs a psych evaluation? Willie is out campaigning for the Championship of Absurdist Statements? What was there all that good to feel about exactly? No consistently palatable starters other than Pedro ? A bullpen too full of question marks? A left fielder destined to play about 30% of the team's games? Mediocrity patrolling right? A first baseman who spent most of last season struggling to hit his weight? The 20 man platoon of catchers waiting to be unleashed? A Spring Training full of nothing but talk about your historic choking collapse? I don't see how a...

What does this mean? This Tolstoy cold dead winter is over. No one can piss on Omar any more.