Baseball Is Back!

I know, it's been quite a long hiatus since my last post. I could come up with a plethora of excuses for why I haven't posted but I don't think you'd care to read them so let's just get to discussing some sports topics, shall we?

Baseball is back and in full swing and that makes me a happy girl. As I've mentioned before, I hate the period of time when the NFL ends and baseball hasn't begun yet. Not that I didn't enjoy the NCAA Tournament immensely. Did you see that National Title game? Such a fun game to watch and entertaining all the way to the end. Congrats to Louisville on winning the title, it was well deserved.

But baseball and football are my two sports loves, the ones that I follow closely and am by far the most knowledgeable about. I've said before that I do not claim to be anywhere close to being an expert on hockey and basketball. It's hard enough keeping up with the NFL and MLB. I don't know how some people manage to stay on top of all of the major sports if that's not part of their job. There just isn't enough time in the world to study it all otherwise.

This year I've delved into the world of fantasy baseball. I joined my office's team and so far, I'm not doing too bad. I was on a fantasy baseball team once years ago but there was no money or prizing involved, it was an auto draft and I found myself losing interest quickly. This time I'm much more focused although I will admit I probably should have done some more research on how the scoring and so forth worked prior to the draft. Fortunately for me I seem to have drafted a pretty decent team and have been able to create a strategy that seems to be working. It did hurt to lose Zack Greinke though.

Speaking of which, did you see the brawl that caused Grienke's injury? If you haven't, here's the clip:

The whole incident is just awful. Brawls seem to be a thing that happens in baseball (not frequently, but they happen) particularly when a player is hit with a pitch and they think it's on purpose. But causing a player to go on the DL because you get into a fight like you're a bunch of drunks in a bar is simply un-called for.

Despite this particular event the regular season seems to be taking off as most predicted although I will say that as usual (though I don't know why they still do considering the history) the Cardinals were a bit under-rated going into the season. They have been doing well for the most part, but if they don't figure out their bull-pen situation with relief/closing games it's going to be a long season with a lot of blown games. With Motte out likely for the season, Mozeliak's got his hands full figuring out that one. But the Cardinals always seem to come up with some unknown as a hero. I'm sure they'll figure it out.

I promise to try and update more and share more of my thoughts on baseball as the season progresses. Now that I'm actively in a fantasy league, I'm following multiple players on all different teams so that should help broaden my player knowledge beyond the birds on the bat. ;-)