He had an off year last season and still wound up with 30 home runs. Last year, he had Jeff Kent in the lineup with him. Jackson's surprise player to have a huge power season, although not in the 60-home run range. The Arizona Diamondbacks will be carrying promotions too far when the expansion team's radio broadcasts start. It's a terrible precedent that shows that marketing is more important than a good broadcast.
Fans tune in because they want to get away from the business world.
They don't want to constantly be hit with commercials. The other expansion team, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, lost their first exhibition game, 2-1, to the World Series champion Florida Marlins. The game, in St. Petersburg, was a reunion for Marlins manager Jim Leyland and his former pitching coach, Larry Rothschild, now the manager of the Devil Rays. The two met on the grass behind home plate at Al Lang Stadium . Both managers were wearing No. 11.