by Amauary Pi Gonzalez

ANAHEIM–There’s a lot of enthusiasm going for this first series at the Coliseum against Cleveland it’s like Christmas for these baseball fans and most teams are opening the season on Monday night, although the sesaon was already open since the Dodgers-Diamondbacks in Australia played last week as the Dodgers took two out of three from the Diamondbacks.

Then the Dodgers played the Padres at Petco for another series opener this time in North America on Sunday Night Baseball. The Dodgers lost to the Padres 3-1, so the Dodgers are 2-0 in Sydney and 0-1 in San Diego. The A’s are going to try and start sometime in these next two days against Cleveland with all this rain.

The Angels here in Anaheim will start Jarrod Weaver against Felix Hernandez for the Seattle on Monday at Angels Stadium. Weather forcast for Tuesday and Wednesday they expect lots of rain in the Southland. In Northern California it rained hard Monday and it’s going to hit the Southland on Tuesday on Wednesday.

Sandy Koufax helped some of the young Dodgers pitchers while coaching this spring: Koufax the former Dodger Hall of Fame pitcher was out there giving tips to some of the Dodgers pitchers and you know in baseball it goes from father to son, it’s a gernerational thing and that is the beauty of baseball.

You can see at any given moment Koufax in Glendale Arizona with Clayton Kernshaw telling him how he threw a curve ball in 1964 and why it was Koufax’s bread and butter pitch that made him a success. Koufax was the best lefty of all time and former Brave Warren Spahn was a great left hander but Koufax was a sensational pitcher.

The same thing you could say what is great about seeing everybody at spring training is the Giants had Willie Mays in camp during spring training helping out the younger players in Scottsdale. I saw Rickey Henderson at the A’s camp at Phoenix Muni last week giving tips and Rickey is a great player and a Hall of Famer and that is the beauty of going to Arizona for spring training.

I work in broadcasting and I’m a fan of the game and I love it and I’ve been watching baseball since I was seven and eight years old back in the old Cuban leagues back in the 1950s. That is the beauty of spring training fans can go down to Arizona and Florida and go and watch these guys from the past.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Los Angeles Angels and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk radio