I was so gonna do some kind of April Fool's thing, but figured lots of blogs will cover that so...
I'm here to complain.
If it was last year, we would have already seen Kosuke Fukudome's heroic beginning as a Cub in the Cub-like 3-4 10-inning loss to the Brewers on opening day.
That was on March 31st, 2008.
This year, with the extra long spring, we won't see any real baseball until April 6.
So my natural baseball body clock is complaining like it's got major jet lag.
I'm tired of the kiddy rides.
I am ready to watch real baseball with real players playing for real wins and real losses.
What did the WBC do for us, anyway?
It made D Lee angry, it messed with Carlos Marmol's head, it made Geo gain weight, it delayed Kosuke's arrival, it embarrassed the entire Dominican Republic, and it didn't mean a thing.
Would you have cared if the US won?
Did you care that they didn't?
Here's what it did do - it made you and me wait an extra week to start summer so that come October we can see the most important baseball games played in worse conditions than last year.
The Cubs regular season doesn't end until October 4th.
That means by the time the World Series is being played it's possible that the Bears will already be 1 and 6 and looking for a new head coach, that all the stores will be having their Christmas sales going on, and that Cub funnyman Ryan Dempster will have secretly teamed up with the Wrigley ground crew so that they leave a snowman on the pitching mound while clearing the rest of the field for game 7.
Hey, that last one would be okay I guess.
