So much for setting the league on fire. Coming out of spring training, I’m hitting around .340, but it’s mostly been on dink singles and the occasional double. I have a hit in all six games we’ve played thus far, but I’m not pleased. I had zero RBIs until game six of the 2011 campaign.

The sixth game (after we dropped the last two of our opening series with the World Champion White Sox – we won our season opener – and the first two to the A’s) was in Oakland. It was another relatively poor showing, but I had one good swing and I made it count. I blasted a 465 ft. three-run dinger to give us a 5-2 lead. We ballooned it to a 9-2 lead before our bullpen blew it and we lost our fifth straight game, 12-9. Damn bullpen.

- Bud Daniel