Well, the long wait is over and today marks the beginning of major league baseball's 2002 season. Hot stoves being dampered, old and sweet with sounds; the crack of a bat hitting a baseball and the thump of a ball hitting a catcher's glove can be heard all over this land.

Remember those story problems you used to have to do in school? I recall them as pretty surreal. Stuff like -- if a train left Seattle at 7:45 heading east going 147 mph and at the same a ferret earned a degree in 18th century German romantic literature from an Internet site based in Florida, which would arrive first?

Well, the long wait is over and today marks the beginning of major league baseball's 2002 season. Hot stoves being dampered, old and sweet with sounds; the crack of a bat hitting a baseball and the thump of a ball hitting a catcher's glove can be heard all over this land.

Remember those story problems you used to have to do in school? I recall them as pretty surreal. Stuff like -- if a train left Seattle at 7:45 heading east going 147 mph and at the same a ferret earned a degree in 18th century German romantic literature from an Internet site based in Florida, which would arrive first?