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With Mariano Rivera going down to season (career?) ending injury, David Robertson is now the closer. He had been a set-up man for the last couple of seasons (All-Star, 1.08 ERA in 2011; 0.00 so far this year). Here is your only reason to root for the Yankees. B)

As always, we start the year undefeated and with hopes of heading to the CWS. And we can hope those Nike POS bats have been discarded or tweaked so our power hitters have a better chance at swinging for the fences.

UA head coach Mitch Gaspard said, "We did a nice job defensively as well. Going into the weekend our biggest concern was probably how we were going to play defensively."

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"I thought we were really good offensively." If Gaspard feels this way the season could be a little more interesting than first expected.

A little regular season action for your enjoyment on the mother-ship. First a home game vs. those dirty snitches on April 14th, then a road game vs. Florida on April 23. Lets also hope we enjoy a Championship Sunday for the SEC tourney for more TV exposure.

"The main reason why there has been a change of bats is because of safety. Balls were turning into bullets due to the contact of an aluminum bat." A new era is beginning in College Baseball, all in the name of safety. While hitters may not care for the change, the effect should be pitching will finally catch up with the hitting in college baseball. This may be a blessing in disguise for the Crimson Tide baseball team as many of their quality hitting lineup left/graduated last year. I fully expect a statistically better year for Kilcrease and the rest of the pitching staff. p.s. forgive the bleacher report link, as it was the only real commentary out in the news world on this development.