Pitchers and Catchers Report

Not sure what it is about spring training, but the little boy in me gets excited at the thought of adults getting paid derisory amounts of money to play a game. Will Mauer have a break out season? Will Morneau reach the monster power numbers hoped for last year? Will Torii Hunter get traded if the Twins are out of contention by the All-Star break? Will Liriano or Baker be the fifth starter? Who is the answer in right field? What about the stadium issue? Does it really matter? Since my ill-fated predictions from last year, I've been really impressed with the local blogging talent, and the lengths that some fans go to in order to cover their team. Two Twins blogs stand out in my mind: 1) Bat-girl.com. Interesting person whom I've never met, but the posts are pretty entertaining and creative. Great story about this site: last summer I was following along on a threaded discussion with several dozen other Twins fans, making comments about how thte Twins were about to get no runs out of a bases loaded situation, or about to lose another one-run game, etc. Some of the posts were referencing someone who was in the service, and so I asked where he was stationed, and as it turns out, it was one of the soldiers assigned to my battalion and was in Iraq at that very moment. Small world! A must see on this site: Legovision 2) Seth Speaks. Seth uses the 'digital pen' to track the Twins, with an enthusiasm that I had as card-collecting, Kenny Landreaux loving, home-run derby playing kid. No one goes statistically deeper than Seth. Last thought on the Twins: It's really too bad Bert Blyleven isn't in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Stastically, there isn't much of an arguement. Just not sure what the Baseball Writers of America are thinking. For more on that, visit BertBelongs.com.