We are only a few days away from the start of baseball season, thus kicking off a sports extraveganza. Hockey and basketball in playoff mode, baseball starting and the crown jewel of ESPN programming that guys can't get enough of: the NFL Draft! Seriously, Mel Kiper Jr. has one job, to predict the draft order of college football players. He spends 11 months of the year watching football and 1 month on ESPN giving predictions and the latest rumors. Jobs at ESPN must be awesome and he clearly has the best of them all!
It looks to be a rocky year of baseball in the Buckeye State. The Reds don't seem to know what the heck they want to be when they grow up (other than rid of Ken Griffey Jr.'s salary) They are all over the place and really haven't done a thing to get better. Kind of like the Bengals whose big offseason move was to sign an undersized middle linebacker. At least the Indians seem to be making progress. LOTS of young players except for Omar Vizquel. Lots of good young pitching. The old man of the crew is C.C. Sabathia and he is in his mid twenties and 4th season. They may not win the AL Central this year but they clearly have built a solid nucleus for the future. The big problem may be getting enough at bats for all the young hitters like Escobar, Gerut, Crisp, Broussard, Hafner, Peralta (starting to get the picture yet?)
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