Chapter one, eh? You ready to do about 200 of 'em?

Yeah, I am too. Go Yanks!

Snowing now, rain later, more snow this evening. But hey, baseball!

BASEBALL

Speaking of baseball, this looks light and fun. I like this game company so I sort of backed by default.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicehateme/bottom-of-the-9th-a-dice-and-card-game-of-classic

And this on Tanaka: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-masahiro-tanaka-isn-t-worried-about-the-health-of-his-elbow-233812784.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Every time Tanaka wakes up in the morning I worry about him needing tj surgery. It sort of takes the fun out of watching him pitch. So I need to try and forget there is a risk. Any suggestions for selective memory removal?

Ellsbury bounces out to start spring training games.

Chris Young's swing looked good at least. Single to right with two outs.

I have zero faith in garret jones being worth a damn. But nice hit up the first base line.

my first look at pirela and he gets a lucky chop hit. Nothing special but i'm excited just to watch him play.

2 LOB. Might as well get started early on that stat.

Baseball is back! That and this song have me fired up!

3 up 3 down for Adam Warren.

Augh, not even on gamechannel.

[13] no Yankees feed that I know of. I'm watching Phillies feed via mlb.tv.

So, who is kyle roller?

galvez and noonan with back to back ground ball singles.

This is pretty much perfect baseball background music.

oh shit, I missed that. Galvez thrown out at the plate. Ellsbury jammed. So not in mid-field form.

umm, it's mid-season form that he isn't in. Not that that's a shock.

Gardner not there yet either btw. He might have just been fooled on it. Sort of tried to bloop it into left center. A bit of a half swing. But that's not necessarily atypical for our gardiener.

hmm, that was some sloppy third base play there from Galvez. It's early but no way to make an impression sir!

Ugh pirela just sailed that ball. Handled the feed Noonan well (barehanded) but that went into the dugout on the attempted double play. I miss Robbie already, though i'm sure it's just early spring blues.

Severino does well there.

I think they're going to find that young Sr. Severino can help right now. That was a sharp inning.

Good name, Severino.

Well apparently this is the right game to miss.

hmm. i turned the game off. I apparently missed a lot. 5-5 in the 9th.

I know it's baseball, and I know we've been waiting for this since October, but somehow I can't get myself excited for spring training games anymore. I'm looking forward to April and the real games...