Why are people talking about baseball? True, there is still snow on the ground, but spring training has begun and opening day of the baseball season is just 39 days away. Spring training (for those of you lay people who live under the Casco Bay Bridge) is the period of time immediately proceeding the baseball season when teams gather in Arizona or Florida to prepare for the upcoming season.
The Red Sox, with the off-season acquisition of Curt Schilling and Keith Foulke, are currently favored to win the World Series, but are slight underdogs in the American League East race with the Yankees. The boys in Las Vegas must be figuring that the Yankees brutal lineup will feast on the poor pitching of all the mediocre teams during the regular season, but face difficulty when it comes time to win in October. Good pitching usually beats good hitting in the playoffs. This should be an interesting season.