I'm not in a good mood tonight but that's okay. The wonder of blogging is that you can be who you are and if you are just starting, no one will read it and if you catch on, it will be because people understand the voice of the writer anyway. So we'll just go with it.

Whose idea was it to put the Expos in Puerto Rico for half the season? I have nothing against Puerto Rico other than my mom and my then step-father honeymooned there. But the Expos are the Montreal Expos until someone buys them and moves them somewhere else. Won't that make Frank Robinson and crew have to play over a hundred away games? Why can't MLB sell the poor lost team and put them somewhere that will help them settle down to one place?

Just to get some comfort in the whole situation, I thought I would look up Puerto Rico's time zone. At first, I was pleased because at least the time zone is the same as Montreal's. But Puerto Rico doesn't follow daylight savings time so right now when we are at 10:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, it's 11:20 PM there. Now I have to look up Montreal's time zone situation. See how complicated this is? Okay, it's 10:20 in Montreal so now we are going to have a partial season playing games at the wrong time. How can that be right?

Baseball is also going to start its season in Japan. I believe the Cubbies are one of the teams going. Are the Giants the other? I'll have to look it up. Why should loyal Giant and Cub fans suffer over this silly experiment in diplomacy. Besides, if I was a gazillionaire like Bonds and Sosa, would I want to fly to Japan in the midst of war rumblings? As my daughter would say: "Nuh uh."

Do they sell Giant season ticket holder seats at less of a price because some of the home games are in Japan? Or do they sell them at the same price and tell the fans they are welcome to the seats in Tokyo if they want to fly over?

You can't confuse the Flagrant Fan any more than posting box scores ten hours before or after they are expected. Oh man, I am NOT going to look up Japan's time zone. And when will the highlights reach ESPN? If either Bonds or Sosa hit four homers in a game or if the watch for Sosa's 500th home run happens, will it be at three in the morning? Fooey on all of this.

Now a headline on ESPN.com is talking about European games in the near future. Enough already. Most of us who are mindless enough to start bashing the French for their war stance (yes, we all forget LaFayette), have taken a decade to get over the Blue Jays winning two World Series titles--one against the Phillies in the cradle of our democracy on the last pitch! Now we have to endure games in Puerto Rico, Japan and Belgium? Perhaps the royalty of Monaco can buy the Expos. At least the Monaco Expos are still close to the original.