The Weekly MLB Spring Training Check-In Thread.

[BeachBaby]

My Phils are doing so-so - they're 4-3 so far. Meh.

How is your team doing?

[TZ]

1. Ugh. Not well.

They lost 10-2 to Detroit (?) yesterday. Worse, on of the pitchers I've heard a lot of talk about has a sore forearm and they aren't quite sure what is going on. That concerns me far more than the actual record. Get well soon, Shaun Hill!

[BeachBaby]

6. Thankfully it's early in the season. He has time to heal.

Hey - I posted the Jayson pic just for you! I know you love my guys! :P :hi:

[TZ]

8. Yeah.

Its fun to root for a team that isn't totally dysfunctional sometimes...:crazy:

[3.14158675309]

2. Knock on wood, but my team, the Twins, are

Kicking ass, especially and most notably SKANKEE ass! :woohoo: :hi:

[BeachBaby]

9. Woohoo!

I hold your beloved Twins in high regard, if for no other reason than the fact that they're destroying the Yanks. :woohoo: :hi:

[3.14158675309]

10. I'd like to hold your beloved twins in

my hands! :hide:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. ~

:rofl:

[Zavulon]

4. Because my Expos are no more, I have (after a couple years)

finally reached the decision to root for the Minnesota Twins, another small-market team that was up for contraction.

They're 4-2 now.

[TZ]

7. Hey you live in Laurel!

You should be rooting for your Nationals/Expos!

[Zavulon]

11. I was in on the ground floor with the Expos.

I rooted for them from their very first game until their last. Can't root for them here. I tried, I just couldn't. It's like being head over heels in love for almost four decades and then learning that your wife just got tired of you and started sleeping with every Republican she could find.

I really, really did try. Just couldn't do it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. No self respecting Marylander would ever root for the Nationals. Ever.

[TZ]

15. Dude: Peter Angelos

The owner so bad even Cal Ripken wouldn't work for him!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. At least he isn't in imminent danger of getting indicted.

And we're not signing fake 19 year olds. :P

[PRETZEL]

5. Bucco's are something like 6-3

too bad these don't count.

But we will be much better this year. I promise. Well actually I hope.:shrug:

[motely36]

13. O's are 5-2

:woohoo:

Although we usually start strong and then fade...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. We're going win the Grapefruit League World Series, baby!

First prize....a grapefruit for every player on the squad!

[azmouse]

17. Dbacks 4-4

[flvegan]

18. As expected.

The World Baseball Challenge eliminates most of my infield, so that's not going to change.

[Bertha Venation]

19. The Halos are 6-1

O8)

[KitchenWitch]

20. I am pleased with the Spring Training games so far!

Go Twins!

[TZ]

21. Did I hear that Twitchy McXanax

is hurting right now?

[KitchenWitch]

23. yep

x(

[SoxFan]

22. Half of them left for the WBC

World Baseball Classic.

Pedroia and Yoooooook are playing for Team USA, Dice-K is pitching for Japan, Big Papi is playing for the Dominican Republic, and Jason Bay is with the Canadian squad. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There's probably a minor leaguer or two playing for Italy.

[Iggo]

24. Dodgers signed Ramirez.

And lo and behold, turns out we got a bunch of other guys on our local team! And there's some kind of "batting order" that people are now talking about. And we have a suspect "pitching staff", whatever that is...lolzers. And our guys will have to play a bunch of OTHER teams in order to win the West, even though we were led to believe that signing this Manny person would deliver us the championship.

Seriously, though. The Dodgers signed Manny and all of a sudden the floodgates opened and the sports-talk hacks are now talking about everything they should've been talking about for the last couple of months.

[Bertha Venation]

25. Makes ya sick, doesn't it.

I hate, I mean I have pure loathesome hatred, toward this stupid phenomenon of worshiping pro athletes to the tune of millions and millions and millions! of dollars. It is disgusting.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Pre-season records mean little

Spring training has two main purposes: To get a look at some kids (all but a couple of whom will be back in Triple-A or Double-A on April 8) and to see how well veterans are doing after injuries. Spring lineups resemble only vaguely the lineups they'll have when they're playin' for keeps.

It's the one time of year when I focus on individual performances, especially the kids'. But that can be misleading, because a kid who's hitting .432 in spring might well be getting his hits off pitchers who are also kids.

Spring training is one big grain of salt. Enjoy it, but don't put too much into it.

[TZ]

27. Oedi! Where ya been man!

I was gonna start a where's Oedi thread tonight cause it doesn't seem right for baseball to be starting and no Oeditpus Rex! :hug: