The end of March is when three major sports are quite busy.
There is March Madness going on. Going into tonight’s games (March 27) is
twelve teams remaining. There is about ten days remaining of spring training
for baseball. Many of the teams regular season start including the Seattle
Mariners begin on April 6. You will find the season does start on Easter April 5
Sunday night between the St.Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. The National
Hockey season is coming to a close with the season ending on April 12. The
playoffs begin on April 15 and then there is the National Basketball season
coming to a close as well on April 2. The playoffs begin on April 18. So as I
say keeps the fans very busy now. You can also add Major League Soccer whose
season recently started.
Most of my time will be the conclusion of the NCAA tournament
and the beginning of the baseball season. Of course, you can’t forget the NFL
college draft on April 30. Those NFL big time fans that do not follow many of
the other sports will look into all the mock drafts coming up. The Seattle
Seahawks will be totally speculation. This year they have eleven picks without
a first rounder since they traded it away to New Orleans for tight end Jimmy
Graham. Since Pete Carroll has become head coach of the Seahawks it is anyone’s
guess. All we know is that they will pick eleven quality players.
In the next ten days before baseball season begins there is
no idea who will be occupying the Seattle Mariners bullpen. They had the best
bullpen in baseball last year and it is expected again this year; however, they
have so much depth that earlier this week Manager Lloyd McClendon says that the
only sure reliever is closer Fernando Rodney. They will go with seven men in
the bullpen starting this season while last year they had eight most of the
season. Most thought that the Mariners will go with two left handed relievers in
the group; however, McClendon says that may not be true. He may go with only
one left handed reliever. He says that the team will go with the best seven
relievers regardless whether they are left or right handed. So the Mariners
will have some high quality relievers. Likely they will have a reliever not on
the team that was on the team last year. Most believe that Charlie Furbush will
be at least one of the left handed relievers; however, the way McClendon is
speaking I can’t believe that is totally guaranteed. There is a possibility a
chance though maybe little he could not be on the team. If he is not on the
team he likely would be traded to some other team. Other words it will be
interesting to see what happens. We know for sure the bullpen will be really
good again and they will have some available for call up from Triple A in case
of injury or poor performance.
Let the days ahead to see what is exciting in all the sports.
Have a great weekend and enjoy all your teams.
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