Could start feeling it today, driving out Reading way, listening on the radio to the Phillies take on the Pirates, in the final Florida game of the this year's Grapefruit League. The sun was shining, the heat was on, and, at each Amish/Mennonite schoolhouse I passed, girls and boys were out in the schoolyard playing baseball. Oh, yes, Opening Day is on Monday.
Too, too bad, then, to hear the news that Joe Blanton will be out three to six weeks with that oblique injury. Right away the starting rotation feels the stress. Next was Brad Lidge. What he had to say about his elbow, and the way that he said it, made me think, uh-oh, this is not going to be something easy.
