Baseball Begins

Finally we have the sound of balls on bats and slapping gloves. Ah, spring! So what has been observed during the approximate first week of America's game. Some modest form is already emerging. The heroic Yankees, following bad luck in Tampa, are now back to .500 with scintillating extra inning victories in Baltimore, demonstrating that Marino at 42 is still a force. It is possible the Yankees will win 17 of 19 games against the O's this year. Meanwhile, the Red Sox have continued their malaise of last September with only a solo win thus far. In the NL, the Phillies struggle for stability and the Mets...well, break them up!

Perhaps the most intriguing baseball story thus far is how Ozzie Guillen, new manager of the Florida Marlins, has discovered his love for Fidel Castro in south Florida while the Boston press is already condemning new Red Sox manager, Bobby Valentine, to the ash heap. Problems should have solutions, so here it is: these two managers should trade jobs before each is respectively fired before mid season.

While the great game of baseball is just emerging for 2012 we continue to endure the Obama regime creating class warfare among us. How truly awful. The latest effort of selling the Buffett Rule is so offensive (oh, that ARod would find some offense) and stupid (it does nothing material to close the deficit) and so hypocritical that only perennial bottom feeders such as the metaphoric Pirates, Cubs and Baltimore would pay attention.

In baseball, there are rules. They are followed. Not, however, in the latest chapter of our public life. We have the President/Baseball Commissioner telling the Supreme Court/Umpires that the ObamaCare mandate/new 12 inning game length must be upheld. How silly.

Hell, if one can shred the Constitution, one can certainly shred baseball's rule book. Chaos, why not? Why should the Pirates, Cubs and Baltimore not have a chance, even if they have not paid for players or invested otherwise in their franchises ? After all, we voted for change in 2008, didn't we?