Biggest bit is the news yesterday that the Phillies had signed veteran reliever Rudy Seanez, recently released by the Dodgers because of a 7.00+ ERA during spring training. That's nothing of course compared to the 135.00 (yes, that's right) ERA that poor Tom Gordon posted in Monday's third of an inning.
It's also true that Alex Rodriguez, not to mention Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi, will make more this year than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins. Parity, anyone? Even more interesting, only one player on the 25-man roster of the Fish is on the hook for more than a year, and that would be Andrew Miller, part of the Cabrera-Willis trade with the Tigers.
Last night the IronPigs exhibition game in Reading with the double-A R-Phils was on TV but there was no sound. So I watched the game (how desperate was I) on TV and listened to the radio broadcast. My guy Carlos Carrasco was pitching for the Phils and good guy J.D. Durbin for the 'Pigs. Lots of yakkety-yak on the radio, what you would expect from an exhibition game. Was surprised, though, how often the play-by-play guy flat out missed calls. Tix for the game were $5 and about 3800 fans were on hand. The Reading park looked great, sounded great. Do hope the ownership group does not go for a new park in center city. Coca-Cola Park is a good new park but the old Reading park has it beat every which way. I wish the new park too patina and a fiercely loyal and demanding fanbase. The triple-A team won 6-2, which gave a local paper here the chance to use this headline: 'Pigs take flight against R-Phils.
