The Opening

I am very excited as Summer is here, Cricket starts next week and Baseball is already upon us. Life does not get any better than this.

Yahoo gives me this nugget of information

Mar 31 OF Ken Griffey Jr. participated in his 20th Opening Day. New manager Dusty Baker congratulated him before the game and said, "Dude, that's a long, long time."

Dusty only had an 18 year career in the bigs, so I guess this is news. For future reference I expect some gravitas from my quotes, something that adds something to the non-news! Or, if they are Dusty quotes, something about being aggressive and swinging at pitches in the dirt, that sort of thing.

Also I am starting a "poor Scott Proctor can't get away from Joe Torre and rest his hurting right elbow, what the hell does he have to do to get a day off?" thread. I'm calling it

The Proctor-ologist: Scottwatch '08*

1st edition: 1 game, 1/3 IP.

Straight to work against the Giants on opening day, I would like to have kept him going through a couple of innings, just to tire him out. He walked a guy and didn't sound inspiring, however if I know Torre (and I like to think that I do) then this is the first of many short and not-so short outings! Hurrah!

I'll keep on writing and encouraging his use out of the bull-pen until he surpasses his seminal 2006 of 83 appearances and 102 1/3 innings pitched. Truely crazy shit.

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*NB: I have amended this from

Proctor's Proctor 2008, which wasn't funny. Therefore all careful consideration of new names is now closed.

Congratulations to Barnardo Millionaire, a signed Nick Knight photo from 1996 is in the post.