Spring Training 2013 Thread (add your photos)

Jackie Bradley Jr. of the Red Sox is 14 for 27 so far.

 

I cannot stand Andrew Marchand.

 

I think Manky is challenging us to a cutline writing contest.

 

Jeez, Manky. Enough already.

 

Thank God the Yanks found someone to replace A-Rod other than Chipper

 

New Times of Miami won't give Selig their records of Biogenesis.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-03-14/news/new-times-steroids-mlb-biogenesis/full/

 

He joined an existing topic ... thank your higher source for small W's.

 

Not expressly spring training, but while visiting a friend in Durham, he showed me Susan Sarandon's house from "Bull Durham," and then we started driving toward the old Durham Bulls field. I asked if it was used for anything, and he wasn't sure, and I quipped, eh, maybe North Carolina Central needs a field. And, lo and behold, as we drove by, we saw North Carolina Central warming up for its doubleheader against Bethune-Cookman. So we stopped in, especially with the game being free.

(Note: I later learned Duke uses the field from time to time as well.)

Two other notes:

1. My friend and I each ordered a brat from the concession stand, thus exhausting its brat supply.
2. Underscoring the lack of development of African-American baseball players, I would say someone between one-third and one-half of the rosters of these HBCUs were white. So were some of the coaches. Not that white people aren't allowed (they let us in), but you would have never known these were HBCUs unless you already knew the schools. As it turns out, Bethune-Cookman has a 2 percent white enrollment, so the baseball team is a large part of that. NCC is 12 percent white, which I would imagine is historically high.

 

Add Tito and the Tribe to the list of Shakers.

http://tribevibe.mlblogs.com/2013/03/13/harlem-shake-tribe-town-216-edition/