The MLB Network is on!!! It's ON!!! You can't see me now, but I'm typing this while performing my happy dance. I'm ecstatic. This is an absolute fantastic start to 2009. Baseball in the dead of winter! Jimmy Rollins! Harold Reynolds! Al Leiter! Don Larsen! (OK, Larsen's not so great. I'm a Dodger fan, remember). It's going to be fascinating to see in which direction this network is going to go. I'll be glued. But this is only the first great bit of baseball news I received today. The second came while doing what has become something of a family tradition around here. You see, for me January 1st has always been kind of a bummer. New Year's Eve is great. But January 1 is a day for unwinding or recuperating. And a lot of people, including me, unwind or recuperate by watching TV. Well, on January 1st, TV is dominated by bowl games. I do not like college football one bit (I could come up with a list of 50 reasons why, but I know a lot of you like i...
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