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Scioscia will give Trumbo at least a month in the 5-spot before demoting him. He's usually very slow to make a move.

Wind chill around 20 degrees expected in Minnesota for their game against Detroit. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tigers-twins-preview-183036714--mlb.html

Harper might get another AB here. edit: Harper finishes with 2 home runs. He might be the youngest ever to do that on Opening Day.

Harper coming up with a chance to tie the ML record for home runs on Opening Day.

J.P. Arencibia in 2011. Pujols has done it twice. Glaus was the last Angel to hit 2 HR's on Opening Day, in 2004. ML record is three, shared by Dmitri Young, Tuffy Rhodes, and George Bell. http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=d4RfZ

That's our Vernon!

First pitch. Laser shot, left field.

Chris Coghlan is trying to become a full-time player again after tearing up his knee in 2010 delivering a shaving cream pie to the face of a teammate in a post-game celebration. He was NL Rookie of the Year in 2009.

Rangers don't have a message board??

I hope Trumbo will not be swinging at the unhittable pitches he'll no doubt be getting. The book is out on him and he needs to adjust.

Trout will catch up by next week.

Mickelson opens his Sunday round with four straight birdies and is now 2 strokes behind the leader, Billy Horschel. There are 16 players within three strokes of the lead.

Turley pitched for the Angels in 1963 at the end of his career, which was cut short by an arm injury. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/turlebo01.shtml Turley’s post-baseball career was actually far more successful than his playing one. He made a fortune as an independent life insurance salesman in Atlanta. “When I make a decision, it’s my own,” he said in a 1975 interview. “I don’t rely on anyone else. I sink or swim by myself. It’s like a pitcher shaking off a catcher. There’s no going back on yourself.” Through the years, Turley was always one of the most popular and engaging players at Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day Games. “I can’t understand some of these players today,” he said. “Nothing ever bothered me, signing autographs, doing interviews. You have all the privacy you want when you get out of the game.” http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-pitcher-bullet-bob-dead-82-article-1.1303733#ixzz2P8diebZd

Two former major-leaguers died this week. They were both 82, and had once been traded for each other. Triandos, a four-time All Star, caught Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter in 1958 and Jim Bunning's perfect game in 1964. Turley won the Cy Young award in 1958 and was World Series MVP that year with the Yankees. With the Yankees trailing the Milwaukee Braves, 3-1, after the first four games, Turley threw a shutout in Game 5, earned a 10th-inning save in Game 6 and picked up the victory in the decisive Game 7 by throwing 6 2/3 scoreless innings of relief. http://spectator.org/blog/2013/03/30/goodbye-gus-triandos-bob-turle

Trumbo, 0-3, BB

Greinke is no AA pitcher throwing mostly fastballs. Spring training can spoil a hitter.

Trumbo still looking for the answer.

Hanson might just get out of this unharmed.

Ethier helps out.

I love these stories. He made the Mets opening day roster after 14 minor league seasons. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/scott-rice-makes-mets-opening-day-roster-14-222735447--mlb.html

By the end of April, Trumbo could find himself down in the 8-spot. Hitting is not rocket science, Mark! Just be a little patient and you'll get some pitches to drive.

Stewart Cink in the lead now at -11. He hasn't won since his 2009 British Open victory. edit: He just bogeyed, and tied for the lead at -10. Crowded leaderboard with 14 players at -10 or -9.

My concerns right now: Vargas CJ Hanson's health Madson's health bullpen Trumbo Conger's defense Blanton has been a pleasant surprise, as well as Richards. Lowe could also be a valuable asset.

excerpt from the "Declaration". These people are bat-shit crazy. "It is self-evident that any military conflict on the Korean Peninsula is bound to lead to an all-out war, a nuclear war now that even U.S. nuclear strategic bombers in its military bases in the Pacific including Hawaii and Guam and in its mainland are flying into the sky above south Korea to participate in the madcap DPRK-targeted nuclear war moves. The first strike of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will blow up the U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam and reduce not only its military bases in south Korea but the puppets' ruling institutions including Chongwadae and puppet army's bases to ashes at once, to say nothing of the aggressors and the provokers. ...This war will not be a three day-war but it will be a blitz war through which the KPA will occupy all areas of south Korea including Jeju Island at one strike, not giving the U.S. and the puppet warmongers time to come to their senses, and a three-dimensional war to be fought in the air, land and seas and on the front line and in the rear. This sacred war of justice will be a nation-wide, all-people resistance involving all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas in which the traitors to the nation including heinous confrontation maniacs, warmongers and human scum will be mercilessly swept away."

They've now declared war on South Korea. http://live.reuters.com/Event/North_Korea/70001409 Could be an interesting weekend. "Interesting" in the bad sense of the word.