Pirates vs. Reds, top of first

It's windy as heck, the forecast is for scattered showers and the same teams are playing tonight, but you can't tell me this puny crowd at Ed Smith Stadium isn't related to the Reds' ongoing negotations with Goodyear, Ariz. as a future spring-training site.
Nate McLouth just struck out on three pitches--nice inside fastball by Johnny Cueto seals the deal.
As kids, something made us fall in love with a team -- their logo, colors, a certain player, location, etc.
The Reds are in their 11th season in Sarasota, which hardly makes residents as angst-ridden as those Brooklyn Dodgers fans who lost their team in the late 1950s when owner Walter O'Malley realized everything Los Angeles had to offer.
But it's sad to see any team leave, especially when the main reason is money. Greed, it seems, knows no bounds in professional sports. In fact, the only thing that seems to be holding up the Reds' Arizona deal is securing $32-million in financing from Goodyear officials.
Yeah, Reds brass will tell you they would have stayed if Sarasota had agreed to this and that. But Arizona -- despite its unbearable heat -- is the new frontier, so we'll probably have to settle for the odd high school or AAU game at Ed Smith next year.
Freddy Sanchez singled, but no runs scored.