IN ABOUT 26 WEEKS PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT!

Yes, it’s that time of year, when the baseball season is half over and the NFL pre-season has started! It means that if your team is still in the hunt for a playoff spot in the baseball playoffs, good for you, but if not, well thank goodness the pre-season NFL exists, and only about 26 weeks until pitchers and catchers report.

This cycle will be interrupted by the NBA and NHL, and for good reason, we need scores every night. A score every night in the winter months makes us remember that pitchers and catchers report in mid-February and baseball is not too far behind!

 

Baseball is an interesting game for me. I love the tactical aspects of the game in that it is employed by the catcher and pitcher, (Those guys that keep reporting for spring training) and the manager and it is very motionless and yet has a profound result for every pitch.

In Basketball, the game is played as a team concept of position and talent, coupled by matchups and the results are immediate. You can watch the game: it is usually exciting because of the bodywork that the players employ.

Football is the game of brute strategy, cram it down their throats and air it out and knock them down. The three main aspects of the game, the aerial game the ground game and the defensive game all are key components in devising strategies. The time element is what makes it even more exciting.

 

Now Hockey too has some brute strategies, but when you come down to it, it is a lot like soccer, a free-for-all. Once a face-off happens it is anyone’s guess where the puck is going. There seems to be no orchestrated designed play, but it seems to be a quick and exciting game, one I enjoy when I watch it because I do know there IS orchestrated designed plays being used. There in lies the beauty of hockey, you interview the Canadian player and ask him what happened and he says, “I don’t know, I was on the ice at the time!”

But I say these things because I think them to be true, and no one out there is willing to comment on what I said.

That’s all I wrote, folks!