I'm tingling because it's almost....

BASEBALL SEASON!!!

I'm almost ready to break down and get cable so I can watch some games.

I'm a Red Sox fan. (It might somehow explain my fascination with rooting for
the underdog.) But I've always liked Clemens. I don't begrudge him any of his
success since he left the Sox. I'm happy for him. I think it's cool that he
and Pettite are now down playing for the Astros, playing for the love of the
game especially in Clemens case. So I was reading an article about how they
are doing down there. I loved this:

From ESPN article <http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2004/columns/story?colum
nist=stark_jayson&id=1741823> "KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- When you're the new guy,
there is always That Moment. That Moment when it hits you. That Moment when
you realize where you are -- and where you're not.

And so, inevitably, it hit Andy Pettitte late on a disorienting Sunday
morning, out there on the back field of his new spring home, the Osceola
County Sports Complex.

It wasn't that strange brick-red Astros jersey he was wearing that told him he
wasn't a Yankee anymore. It wasn't the sound of the steers mooing at the rodeo
-- yeah, the rodeo -- next door.

It wasn't even the thought that he knew virtually none of the 33 other
pitchers and catchers working out all around him, except for that old guy with
the name "Clemens" on his back.

No, it was that bunting-and-baserunning lecture that did it. The one where the
coaches "were telling me how to dive back to first base so I won't blow out,"
Pettitte laughed later.

Bunting. Diving. Sliding. Running down the first-base line without getting
called for interference. These were things that were actually dealt with
Sunday on the first day of the first spring training of the rest of Andy
Pettitte's baseball life."

Welcome to the National League, boys! I love baseball.

cast go at SOX!!!!!!