Phillies Unanswered Questions

The Phillies and Pirates go 10 innings and end it as a 3-3 tie. Nobody likes a tie in baseball, but it's spring training and lets face it, these guys are just using each other to try new things out, tone up pitchers arms and to see how fielders and hitters have adjusted during the off season, plus thrown in there is the chance for minor leaguers to show there stuff to the big league coaches in the hope they may be allowed out of the minors earlier than scheduled.

One of the things currently unanswered from the Phillies camp is:

"What the hell is with Jayson Werth and his beard and hair?".

Suggestions that have been thrown around are that he's a keen fisherman and he's emulating Captain Birds Eye, another is he misses Eric Bruntlett (he must be the only one) and finally he had a gig as Santa and like it too much, but I have to be honest these are all hype and misinformation thrown out to disguise the real reason behind the new look. After some deep down discoveries about some of his off season activities, my findings are that he is in negotiations to star in some upcoming commercials for Geico as they try to give teams some extra insurance. "isn't that what the bench players and bullpen do?" Okay so its not Geico, even if he does look and act like a caveman, but seriously, if you see this Jayson... "HAVE A FRICKIN SHAVE AND A HAIR CUT, you look like a serial killer"

Around Baseball

The New York Yankees backup catcher, Francisco Cervelli, got dinged in the helmet by Jays pitcher, Zech Zinicola. Cervelli picked up his second concussion since November. The Yankees waited till the 9th inning to retaliate, now come on guys it's spring training and pitchers are going to be wild, especially those in later innings. I guess this definitely sets up some interesting meeting for the regular season between these two clubs.

The Dodgers fans thought they were in the twilight zone Saturday when Guns 'n' Roses started blaring out, everybody stood up 'standing ovation or just checking to see if they were dreaming or had been caught up in one of those 'back to the future' type movies', we'll never really know, but it was real, Eric Gagne was once again on the mound in a Dodgers uniform. I'm sure Broxton won't lose any sleep worrying about the closers spot.

MLB obviously have there own way of doing things, and like most major corporations believe they know best, although they test for amphetamines, steroids and other PED's they do NOT test for HGH although it is banned. In the UK recently a rugby player was banned for 2 years for testing positive for HGH, however MLB not convinced the test is good will research themselves with their own experts before attempting to implement a test for a substance they have banned.

MLB Umpires get some updates, following last years post season, and regular season too, which for all the great plays and achievements of players and teams will probably be the year known for 'BAD UMPIRING'. MLB is seen to be making some changes at least, former supervisors Marty Springstead, Jim McKean and Rich Garcia have not been retained and umpires such as Randy Marsh and Charlie Reliford have been made supervisors. I am not sure this will change much other than allow MLB to to claim they are trying, and I am sure some managers will say, "Yes they are VERY TRYING at times". I hear people calling for more video playback, but still that's still based on someone's opinion of what they see, even in the NFL they still get it wrong after video playback. Umpires don't have to be perfect, just get the obviously calls right the rest is all part of the great game of baseball.


any sarcasm is not meant to offend, unless it does, then consider the possibilities of more during the season.