BaseBall roundup

It's May First, time to recap the month in baseball. April does matter, much to our chagrin.

AL East - The series to battle for first is...Orioles vs Blue Jays?!? Say it ain't Sosa! O's are looking solid but Ponson and Lopez, pray for rain pray for rain doesn't hold up as well....But Ray Miller running the bullpen just Feels Right (tm). Expect a bump in their pitching from the maestro himself. Meanwhile Yankees and Red Sox do a backslide and give Lou Pinella some hope of escaping last place. Just slight.

AL Central - Best games this season will be shaking out here. Twins, Indians, and White Sox all have exciting interesting clubs. White Sox have that "family" attitude, which also means they will sit down and slug it out with each other for the sake of it. Detroit? Maybe they will go .500 this year. Royals? Well, the Indians and Twins do it with small market dollars, and the Royals can't, so it must be the GM - Will you finally dump Baird?

AL West - snoozefest so far. Jamie Moyer is my age and throwing balls how fast - 70 MPH? This division will remain a joke until the California Angels come back to life. Trade Vlad to a fun team. Seriously. A's are still a .500 team. This will be a good test of whether Beaneball will play out - new rotation, same results? Oh wait, no bats.

NL East - Let's see, it's April which means Bobby Cox has been thawed out, put a plug of chaw in his mouth, and called up Leo Mazzone and they started working their mojo magic down in Atlanta. Man takes nothing, shapes into something. This dog will hunt again...Florida is looking sharp, and the Nationals now have fans to play for besides uber-god Frank Robinson's words and actions. That alone will give them a 10 game uptick this year. Pedro is Mets-see baseball of course, and Jon Lieber was the deal of the year for the phillies. Too bad they didn't keep up in the arms race.

NL Central - So the Pirates suck, the GM is not good at picking talent, and ownership is scraping the revenue money from the team and pocketing it. Time for a coup d'teat? I think so. Cubs are dead unless Dusty can spin a new pitching staff together...St. Louis...if it wasn't for Pujols, the team is too boring to keep one's attention. But they win and that matters. Houston has no bats.

NL West - Giants are in holding pattern until Barry arrives. That will be the mid season joly. If Alou can hold them together for awhile, they can out run the Dodgers, who are still erratic but have a good record. Isn't it great that they all have one team they can count on beating up on - Colorado, once again. Kill this team now, please.

(I'm probably the only person who understands this. that is okay)