The season is here . . . again. As if it ever ended.

I do not refer to Japanese baseball, which absorbs too much attention even through the "so-called" off months, when info-starved sports junkies suck up every bare morsel of non-news. If, for example, Ichiro should sneeze in the summer, nobody cares. But if he does so in January, it's screamed out as a headline.

But, no, not baseball. Japanese baseball is too tube-tied anyway. Most fans get their fix off TV rather than drag themselves to a ballpark.