Cook Will baseball season ever get here?

I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but even though I live in the Land of Football (Texas), I’m a baseball guy at heart. It’s probably because that was the only sport that I was marginally acceptable at playing.

Great glove, lousy bat ... but I always got to start.

At least, now is the time of year when the talk of teams, and their prospects for the upcoming season, really “ramps up.” Now is the time when I start to get my baseball “fix” fulfilled.

And, yes, I’m one of those fantasy baseball nerds.

I guess everybody has their weird quirks.

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Today (Thursday) will see the Champ Hambrick Relays going on at the track on Highway 31.

I hope to see a lot of you, at least on your lunch hour, swinging by for a few minutes and cheering on our athletes.

I t ’ s the perfect opportunity, and easy access, to get out in the fresh air.

This local event got rained out last year. Hopefully, we’ll dodge that bullet this year.

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Speaking of the weather ... rain, rain, go away ... you’re messing up my sports page.

Almost everything rained out last week, I had trouble hooking up with coaches in between last week’s issue and this one, and I’ve been in the midst of preparing for the April issue of The Lake View News, which I’m also reponsible for.

It’s been a strange week ... but not as bad as last year when I had similar ones. Then, I was new here at the paper and it made me a little nervous with almost no games to get into the paper when we had bad weather then.

Of course, next thing I know, I’ll have three weeks in a row when I’m meeting myself coming and going.

But it’ll just give me something else to gripe about and I’ll be satisfied... LOL.

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I know I’ve come out against all the Tiger Woods hysteria ... and I don’t want to talk about the specifics of that, per se.

But I do want to complain about the media some more. I mean, this is really getting ridiculous, like they’re a weather vane or something ... swinging this way or that, depending on how the wind blows.

The whole reporting of the issue, in the beginning, was hard news. Tiger had a car wreck ... in the early morning hours ... something was weird about it ... the media followed up on it.

Now, the media seems to be focused on what treatment Tiger is going through, how he’s reacting to his imminent return, and what our reaction is.

And there doesn’t seem to be much concern about how much more painful this whole media frenzy is making this situation for Mrs. Woods.

As for my reaction, I just want the whole thing to go away. I. Don’t. Care.

Loyd Cook has worked in newspapers for 17 years. He has earned multiple sportswriting and newswriting awards from the Texas Press Association and the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors organization.