Baseball Lying and Skybus Flying

For fans of baseball, the middle of January is a lonely time of year. It's been months since the World Series, there still a couple months till opening day, and most of the trading's happened. Spring Training, that time of false optimism for about 90% of teams is still a month or so away. You know it is the low times for baseball when the writers over at MLB.com have their top story about how a player who wasn't named in the Mitchell Report just got around to addressing false statements that he was named in the Mitchell Report. MLB.com has never had the greatest writers in the world, and when a story doesn't fly over a fence for the 756th time, they have trouble stringing together words worth reading. So please, baseball writers, quit writing meaningless articles about Jeff Francoeur's film choices and brush up on your Sabermetrics. You're going to have to learn what OPS+ means some day.

Somewhat baseball related: I was looking at what Spring Training and trying to see if I could fly down to Lake Buena Vista, FL to see the Braves play on the world's cheapest airline, Skybus. Unfortunately, Skybus does not fly anywhere nearby, but it does fly to the city where the Orioles play their warm up games. No thanks. Skybus interests me to no end. I am amazed at the fact you can fly on the East coast for somewhere around 40 dollars usually, with some tickets going as cheap as $25. The catch upfront is that the plane has no actual service for passengers, and the hidden catch is that they don't actually fly you to the cities they list. Want to fly to New York? Well, they fly you to New York - Newburgh, NY to be exact, about 75 miles outside of New York City. New Orleans, right? You land somewhere in the middle of nowhere Mississippi and are expected to have a way to the Big Easy. That makes me shudder. LA is a bit easier - you land just fifteen miles outside in Burbank. I think this Spring I'll still try to fly Skybus, maybe to New Orleans in March. Maybe to Florida, where their destinations are a little closer to recognizable civilization. Backwoods Mississippi scares me.