While you were considering your commuting options before leaving work today, I was watching a sausage race. Can't remember who won; does it matter?

Got to see Daric Barton smack a double down the left-field line. Spoke with James Click of BP yesterday, and I agree - Barton has a long swing. But he seems to have tremendous control and can adjust on pitches.

Yesterday at the Cubs v A's game we saw Taggart, Billy Beane's dog, and the host of Studs wandering around acting as cool as Mark DeCarlo could be wearing a Kerry Wood jersey.

Yah, Spring Training is pretty cool.



By the way, thank you to the 163 people who emailed me the last week. I appreciate the thoughts and I will get off my ass and start writing more. And I do have an opinion on Matt Watson's demotion (and the other roster moves) and it's fairly reasonable and well thought out.

It's coming, as soon as the four letter words stop being so frequent.

Also, if you have not been to Spring Training and you are an A's fan...well, you kind of have to have done the prior to be the latter. I know, family, work, money concerns.

Pshaw.

But, until you watch a guy in an A's uniform that you had no idea was on the Spring Training roster - and you made it a point to memorize EVERYONE - then you haven't experienced the rush of flipping open seven different player guides and programs trying to figure out who the guy with a number on his jersey that resembles the symbol for pi...this sentence is running on and the thought died out long before.

Get your arse to AZ and get some sun.

By the way, traffic in Arizona is ridiculous and people drive like they have brain damage caused by the sun.