Winter tightens it's grip, and we lose ours - But then there's baseball!

As we contemplate the Awful Horror of another Oklahoma weekend besieged by snow and ice - the radar shows the leading edge of the snowstorm about six or seven hours distant, and the forecast of another 5 to 9 inches of accumulation - our thoughts cannot help but turn to sunnier topics.

Baseball.

In the morning's e-mail we received an invitation to join MLB Bloggers, after some illustrious member discovered that we have, on occasion, opined on major league baseball. We are invited to help make "a positive contribution to the Internet community."

Well, no one has ever accused of of that before! So after a little more contemplation, we'll probably go ahead. Aside from the residue of the Steroid Era and Barry Bond's failed amphetamine test, exhorbitant salaries and our still percolating anger over the "tie" at the 2002 All Star game, baseball remains one of the few "pure" areas in society, made ever so more sweet by the St. Louis Cardinals' conquest of the World Series last fall.

Who knows, it could be fun.