Look at the Pretty, Shiny Red Diamond

Post date: Mar 31, 2013 11:04:46 PM

It is finally Opening Day! The day that every baseball fan awaits with excitement and anticipation of the season that has yet to be. I am no exception. As of noon tomorrow Pacific daylight Time I will be unavailable to the rest of the known world for about four hours, why? I will be entranced by the sheer beauty that is the baseball diamond, the crown jewel of all jewels; the only jewel that outshines all others.

The opening Day roster, the players who have received their major league Halo include: Pitcher Mark Lowe, Infielder Brendan Harris, and outfielder J. B. Shuck. Luis Jimenez, David Carpenter, John Hester, and Kole Calhoun have all been sent to the Angels' Triple-A affiliate the Salt Lake City Bees, Ryan Madson and Andrew Taylor have been added to the 15 Day Disabled List, retroactive to March 22.

Coming out of spring training, this team still has one glaring concern; the starting pitching. Jason Vargas gave Up seven runs to the Dodgers in the middle game of the preseason Freeway Series. If the Angels do not remedy this soon, it's going to be a long season for the Angels and their fan base. As I mentioned before, it doesn't do any good for a team to have a potent offense if the pitching staff can't hold any leads. The games are for real now, the meaningless exhibition season is gone; this is where it all begins. If the Angels don't get a good start out of the gate it doesn't matter how well they do the rest of the season, if they create too much of a deficit; it is very easily going to be a repeat showing of last season.

With that said, to me Opening Day represents optimism; and as such, I'm not going to focus on things this team needs to fix. Rather, I'm going to continue to enjoy the beautiful hypnotic enchantment that is provided by the beauty of the baseball diamond.

-ICE