02.28.07 HEY LOOK, BASEBALL GAMES

I'd be doing something wrong if I didn't point out that spring training games finally started today, from unbalanced matchups like the Braves two-hitting Georgia Tech to the much more fair Pirates versus Manatee Community College (the Pirates won).

All in all, the next month of Cactus and Grapefruit League action will make for some astoundingly dull SportsCenter highlights and hieroglyphic box scores, but it's pretty much all the non-basketball fans have to tide them over until April.

I'll be checking in with baseball every time the stories get sexy, of course, but if you're thirsty for some daily MLB preview action, allow me to point you in the direction of The Dugout and Deadspin, which have been previewing one team a day and will continue to do so each weekday until the season starts. Deadspin even managed to rope some fuckin' sexy dude to write about the Seattle Mariners.

Anyway, this is just your first warning to get excited for baseball. The second warning will come around opening day. Then we can pay attention to MLB for two weeks, then tune out until the All-Star Game, then take another month and a half off, then start paying attention to the pennant races in late August. Because really, 162 games? I barely have the attention span necessary for an entire episode of The Simpsons.