Life Begins On Opening Day

I usually use the above headline on a weekday but MLB has decided the last few years to use the first Sunday in April as Opening Day. It's my favorite day of the year as games that count are back until October. Can the Cubs repeat? Will Cleveland be able to get over the hump or the Dodgers show that you can buy a pennant? Will teams like the Brewers, in the midst of a re-build be able to surprise people? Milwaukee's everyday lineup is pretty good right now…it's the pitching that's a huge question mark. It was announced yestrday that Matt Garza will start the season on the DL. At the risk of sounding unfeeling…the Brewers would be better off to move on from the veteran even when he comes back healthy. He just doesn't have it anymore. Wouldnt it be better to use that spot on a young pitcher with an upside and get them the major league experience that will pay dividends down the road? The bullpen is also full of question marks. If the Brewers can speed up the re-build and become competitve this year…it will be the pitchers over-achieving that will be the difference.

The Sunday games have the Yankees at Tampa, the Giants at Arizona and the Cubs playing at St. Louis on Sunday night. The Brewers open at home on Monday afternoon vs Colorado. You can hear the game on WSAU.

I plan on making some trips to both Miller Park and Target Field this season. I will also get my baseball fix starting next week as I begin another spring season of Wausau East baseball on Foxsports Radio. The Lumberjacks begin next Friday.

I find myself not as interested in the Final Four this year as I probably should be. I guess the most interesting story is if Gonzaga, Oregon or South Carolina can beat North Carolina.

The Bucks take on Detroit tonight at the Bradley Center. Not only can you watch the young Bucks continue their playoff run…you can check out both former Badger Jon Leuer and Rice Lake native Henry Ellenson who play for the Pistons.

Congrats to the fans of the Salt Lake City Screaming Eagles indoor league football team. They were asked to decide if the team should sign woman abusing defensive lineman Greg Hardy…they said no.

Happy Birthday to Gabe Kaplan who turns 72 today…I had his comedy Lp “Holes and MelloRoles” back in the day and he did these bits…it seemed funnier back then…but he did have a major league mustache!

Elections have consequences…The New York Times reported on Thursday that the people who gave the material that Devin Nunes claims back up the Trump claim of wiretapping are two White House officials and Trump political appointees…Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis. And the material that he then immediatly showed to the President does not back up the claim of wiretapping but is evidence of the legal monitoring of foreign folks who are talking “about ” Trump. So to follow this…Nunes went to the White House, received classified information from Trump political folks and instead of taking the information to his committee for investigation he takes it to the guy who's being investigated who probably knows about it already anyway. As I said yesterday, Nunes is completely compromised and must be replaced on the House Intelligence committee. And on top of that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has offered to testify if he gets full immunity. Which begs the question…full immunity from what? Go to vox.com…they are doing really good reporting on this stuff.

Has there ever been a more anti-worker, anti-science, anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-environment administration in the history of this republic than this current batch of clowns? And they are only two months in…the damage they are doing will take decades to fix.

Songs Of The Day

The Stroke-Billy Squier (1981) he had toiled in the music business for 12 years until hitting it big with this less than nice look at the industry. From the btriple platinum Lp “Don't Say No”

Stuck In The Middle With You-Stealers Wheel (1972) many people thought this was a Bob Dylan song when it first came out of their radio. Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan wrote it and Rafferty sings it on the first LP from the very underrated band.

Life Begins On Opening Day

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