Happy New Year!

The Braves and the W.S. Champs, the Phillies, got our baseball new year started on Sunday night. The excitement of baseball filled the air. Our new year is quite differant than that of the calander one. Our grasses turn green, our weather is warmer and we all come out to play. For anyone near the game... it means it's time for baseball. What will the year bring??? We start this year with large free-agent moves, big trades, a declining economy, player drama and the unfortunate death of Angel's pitcher Nick Adenhart.

The season is sure to be filled with various headlines and stories than none of us expect.... Will there be another story like Josh Hamilton's of Texas; Maybe another race to .400; Or will we have another story like that of the Rays of '08... Let's hope not for the sake of Red Sox Nation. What we can hope for is baseball. And that is surely what we will get... at least 6 months of it.

So I welcome everyone back to the game. The year didn't end in such a happy ending for my Sawx, but I am positive that we are looking at a great year! That is the great thing about another year. New beginnings, new faces, new uniforms and new ambitions. All of our teams, whether they finished dead last or up front, are in fact contenders. Even if for the first day of the Season, we are all undefeated. As the first week reaches it's middle point, none of us are more than three games back (haha!)... Yes we are all contenders at this point. So let's enjoy baseball for what it is. Let's not worry about mid-season trades, injuries or even a meltdown by our relief pitchers. It's a new year everybody. And baseball is back and I could not be happier.

My thoughts and prayers go out to Nick's family and the entire Angel's organization.... He will surely be missed...