Q.  Great spring training, eh?

A.  It's been a great spring for Lookout Landing.  Man, they are in midseason form.  They're looking at 21-7, 2.72 this year.

If you haven't seen their postgames, well ....go get 'em.  Way too good'a reads for these kinda games.

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Q.  How much does 10-and-4 matter?

A.  Weaver's Eighth Law:  Nobody remembers in May whether you won a game in March.

There's a Weaver Law I've got real enthusiasm for.

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Seems I've read some articles that showed spring records to have no correlation with records in the regular season .... ah, sho' nuff, here's a very convincing example. 

If I'm not mistaken, the very first Mariner team (1977?) scored 6, 8, 10 runs a game in stretches of March ... the fans got psyched up ... then Nolan Ryan and Frank Tanana fired back-to-back shutouts or something.  Was sitting next to some guy who went, "This is a team that couldn't be stopped in Arizona"...

Earl and I :- ) don't care whether our teams win in March.  After two innings on Opening Day, everybody forgets it all.

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Q.  Does it mean anything?

A.  All five of the M's starters are kicking tail - as a group they're probably 2+ on the ERA.

And Luke French is looking great, again, that being against the same fringe comp that he wasted last year at Cheney.  But French is not yet a writeoff.  Maybe he's continuing to announce something.

Pauley and Wilhelmsen look great... Pauley's allowed one run and has like an 8:1 CTL.  Most AAA fringe starters, I write off, but I believe that David Pauley can pitch a little bit in the American League.

Of the M's top 8 starters ... 8 of them look real sharp (maybe except Doug Fister, strictly speaking).  I don't suppose that's a bad thing.

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The very fact that Erik Bedard is pitching, that means anything, yeah.

'Course, it isn't those 8 guys causing the 10-and-4 record.  Any AA shlub might have blown the victories for them; it so happens nobody did.

The individual performances are worth a look-see, but the record, no.

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