The Voice of Baseball...

...is finally back tonight. Peter Gammons returns to ESPN to report live from Fenway during the Twins-Red Sox game, and I couldn't be happier. In the media, Gammons is the best thing for baseball. He's not Jay Mariotti, who calls out the manager of the hometown team repeatedly to get press. He's not Sid Hartman, who has college kids write his columns so poorly that they seem three days behind. He's not any of the clowns that end up on Around the Horn that have to reiterate lame and dated points they made because nobody reads them (and I like that show--it's no PTI, but it's good). Gammons is straight-forward--if a team that is a media darling (i.e. Boston, either New York team, the LA Dodgers, etc.) is not performing well, he'll air out that point on cable TV--he'll cut down the Red Sox and he writes for the Boston Globe. Imagine Reusse doing that....

Here's to Gammons and a full recovery from the aneurysm that sidelined him. Can't wait to see him toinght.