Miscellaneous Fulminations....

Domonic Brown hit two homers against the Tigers for the Phillies plus another hit. The top prospect in their system looked pretty impressive to me. He made a nice run saving catch in the outfield as well. Very athletic.

Phil Coke faced three straight lefties in the 5th inning....he didn't get any of them. Howard, Ibanez, Brown...couldn't put any of them away. Don't know much about Coke yet....maybe he's never sharp in Spring Training. He's failed to impress so far.

Don Kelly is an okay minor league lifer and sometime MLB utility guy....but watching Kelly do the old "Ole!" on a chopper to 3B by Jimmy Rollins and seeing Rollins pull into second base with a double made me appreciate Brandon Inge. Inge gobbles that play up and might have thrown Rollins out...for sure Rollins is only on first I'd bet.

The Washington Nationals had not won a Spring Training game prior to today....then of course they manage to win not only their first but they get two wins today in Split-squad action. Good for them.....not winning in the Spring isn't a big deal....but going winless into your third week of action is pretty embarrassing.

Read a little preview of the Twins new stadium, Target Field. Supposedly the prevailing wind will blow in from Rightfield. This will hurt some of the Twins lefty power bats in the Homer department. Morneau, Mauer, Kubel, Thome, and so on. Another interesting thing is that Target Field will have very, very little foul territory as the fans are on top of the action. One little quirk of the football field doubling as a baseball diamond in The Metrodome was it had oodles of foul ground....this helped the Twins pitchers immensely over the years. They'll be pitching w/o that little security blanket this year. I think one possible Achille's Heel for the Twins this year will be their possibly weak outfield defense.

Tigers 3B coach, Gene LaMont, ran over Jim Leyland's foot w/a golf cart the other day and broke Jimmy's toe. Write your own joke....all I know is I found that exceedingly amusing.

Tiger Woods back for The Masters. Makes sense for him to return in a controlled environment like Augusta...that joint is on lockdown. I don't know how rusty Tiger will be....but I'd love to watch him contend and win. Nobody is proud of his behavior...but I've been a fan since he was 15-yrs old winning the US Junior Am....can't abandon him now.

If you want to watch a pretty darn good baseball movie then you have to watch "Sugar". Really good stuff....