I rhapsodized earlier in the week about the start of spring training which promoted someone to drop me a note insisting 'the games don't count, so who cares?' The answer, obviously, is that I care. Doh.
Spring training games are NOT important in terms of season standings (we don't let you start the regular season with more wins just because you captured the Grapefruit or Cactus League title) but rather because it's baseball, damn it, and if you have to wonder about more than that, you need to find another table to park your lunch tray at because you are most certainly NOT sitting here with me.
I mention any of this because the best rivalry in professional American sports (and, in my opinion, perhaps in all of sports anywhere) is renewed today when the Boston Red Sox host the New York Yankees starting at five after one this afternoon in JetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida.
And feel free to trot out that 'these games don't matter to anyone' perspective to one of the folks seated in Row Eight in the 100 Block of Section 106 who shelled out $263 for a ticket to watch it.
That reaction could be as entertaining as the game on the field. Play Ball!
-bill kenny
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