More Notes on Opening Day(s)

The MVP debate: After 1 game out of 2430, Hideki Matsui is the leading candidate for AL MVP...
OK, that doesn't say a whole lot, but he had one heck of a spring. Ichiro looked solid in March as well (he hit about .500 this spring), and if he can get off to a faster start than last April (where he hit .255), we could be looking at the first .400 hitter since Ted Williams, and the first all-Japanese MVP race in history.
Of course, that would take a sub-par year from Manny, Ortiz, Shef, Vlad, etc.

On the NL MVP race, this could just be Albert Pujols' year, with Bonds on the DL. In almost 80 ABs this spring, he had 0 strikeouts. That's not a typo. Zero.
And in case you missed it, a clause in Carlos Delgado's contract gives him a bonus if he finishes 2nd in the MVP voting to Barry Bonds, but not if he's 2nd to anybody else.

That the first MLB player was unmasked as a steroid offender today shouldn't surprise anybody. That it was the Devil Rays' Alex Sanchez should. Or should it? People always throw around Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield, but why don't they mention Randy Velarde or Benito Santiago, the two other names in the BALCO scandal?

Yesterday for lunch I went to stop in an Italian deli down the street, only to find that they were closed on Sundays. Across the street, there was a Subway restaurant. This was hugely disappointing, because although Subway isn't horrible, it's nowhere near what you'd get at a real Italian deli. And when you have your heart set on great food, you're extremely let down when you have to go to a marginal fast-food joint like Subway.
My point is, now I know how Red Sox fans must have felt when they got Clement and Wells instead of Pavano and Johnson.

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