Mike Goodhope, which is a great name for anyone in a business venture, is down in Arizona for Spring Training and was kind enough to send some pictures back from this weekend. You can take a peek at the following address:

http://www.studentloansharks.com/MikesAZSpringFeb2005/index.html

If you right click on the pictures and select 'view image' you can get a larger image size.

I've got a few dozen posts ready to flow in the next few days. There has been a few dozen issues at work and I've been spending too much time on my paid occupation. Sorfry. Hey, I didn't get into this line of work, ugh, to work. I took this job because I was supposed to be able to spend 6 out of every 8 hours reading and writing and blogging (wasn't that a Sundays album?).

Anyway.

I've got A's contract news and info to come and some outside opinions on the Eric Byrnes non-situation, situation and the Octavio Dotel situation, non-situation.

And as always, I've got a few good examples of horrible journalism for you to sift through.

I've got another 36 hours of eye-bleeding torture for work and then I'll have three days to enthrall you with some details and information.

That, and the 2005 Baseball Prospectus Annual dropped this week and I'm going to busy reading that cover-to-cover.

In the mean time, try to remember that Jose Canseco is a freak and that steroids and performance enhancing drugs were not against the rules of MLB until 2002. So, really, the talk about 'cheating' is ridiculous. Yes, steroids were and are illegal unless prescribed by a doctor (or a guy in Candada or Mexico). But, in MLB until the last two seasons, there was an open field of use available. In other words, and unfortunately, if you weren't skirting 'the unwritten rules' you weren't trying.