Opening Night

I've been a Phillies fan all my life, contrary to many of the Rays fans who suddenly appeared all over campus this year when they suddenly were a contender this fall, who after they lost all but became extinct. Opening night was last night and Brett "The Redneck Rocket" Myers, who promptly gave up three home runs to Brian McCann, Jeff Francouer (who had a new open stance), and some new guy who we had to walk, intentionally, on his third plate appearance later in the night. Brett Myers ERA is at 6.00, he has played one game. I can tell it's gonna be a summer where I have to drink heavily during his starts. I hope his ERA goes down for the sake of the potential repeat, and his wife. Tomorrow night grampy moyer starts, I actually have lightened my stance on the oldest active player in the majors, He's not a bad pitcher in any sense, It's just, I think he's gonna wanna start collecting his social security soon and I don't want anything to interfere with that. Do I think the WFC will repeat? why not? for the past two years we've had slow starts to the season, nothing surprising there, then we seem to gain momentum up to the all star break, then the mets collapse in september and we win the division. Sure, the mets and braves have made some moves to make them more competitive, but to claim that anyone but the defending world champs are not the team to beat cheapens the world series win, the mets added a closer who pitched in the AL last year, he didn;t face the bats that exist in the NL East, and I'm not talking just on the phillies, K-Rod was in the AL West, not exactly the most overpowering bats in baseball. The Marlins need to find a way to keep Hanley Ramierez happy otherwise at some point in the season he's gonna want out and find a way to get just what he wants someplace else. The Braves seem to know what they're doing, I have a lot of respect for them, Bobby cox is a good manager. They say lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. I wonder what would happen if it struck three times.