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Pitchers and Catchers Report!!!

GIANTS With roster firmly set, goal is to stay healthy

Scottsdale , Ariz. -- The Giants' pitchers and catchers who report to spring training today will discover a remodeled Scottsdale Stadium, a new weight room, new on-site practice fields and a manager who wants his team to start clicking now.

As usual, the only real jobs up for grabs with the Giants are for peanut vendors and beer hawkers at 24 Willie Mays Plaza. The 25 gents in baseball uniforms are pretty well set, and the best a youngster can hope for is to make a grand impression, as reliever Scott Munter did last spring, and wait for a call later.

Manager Felipe Alou's main interest is seeing his core players prepare in the Valley of the Sun without the discordant sound of hamstrings popping and a sea of MRI exams floating about the building.

"I don't believe this is a spring to see other guys," Alou said. "This is serious business. I'm speaking for myself, but I feel I'm speaking for a lot of other people. We are two seasons since making the playoffs. We had a bad season last year. Any way you look at it, we were a long ways from being a good team."

There are some pluses for the Giants this spring, starting with Barry Bonds, who presumably will make his annual grand entrance to camp without the aid of crutches. Also, the team is not integrating three new starting position players as it did last year.

Baseball is back. Yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!

GO GIANTS!!!!

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[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

(Cue halleluia chorus. Jays look interesting, if not quite a winner this year)