Especially when it concerns my beloved Seattle Mariners. The new season opens on the 31st and I will be in attendance at Safeco Field for the opening pitch from Erik Bedard. This past off season was marked by controversy, as the M's traded their mostly highly touted "prospect" and 4 other players for Bedard. The trade threw the highly developed and critical Mariners blogosphere into a cataclysmic tizzy, with the anti-trade camp raving that the M's, being a team that isn't that good and needs to rebuild, gave up far too much for a pitcher with a sketchy health record and only two years guaranteed left on his contract. The pro-trade camp countered that Bedard is the top of the rotation starter that M's have been missing and his presence will close the gap between Seattle and the winners of the division title in 2007, the Los Angeles Angels. Since I am a nerd, I spent far too much time this winter lurking in various blogs following the debate in all of its nauseating detail, of which I will spare you any further punishment. Here's to the new season.
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