Like every other American blog it seems only appropriate this week to put up a post of things I’m thankful for. Although I think that Keith Olbermann put it best when he said in Sports Illustrated that “Thanksgiving means…to me [that] we’re too far removed from the World Series but not close enough to spring training.” So while I’m thankful for my family, my co-author and girlfriend, Dirty Watah being mentioned on Sunday Night Baseball, The Steal, Damon’s Grand Slam, The Bloody Sock, Beckett’s performance in the 2007 playoffs, Buchholz’s no-hitter, Lester’s no-hitter, Big Papi being released by the Twinkies, Tito and Theo, I came across something that I think both Keith and I should truly be thankful for: ESPN Deportes.

That’s right, it’s the station that’s up in the 200’s somewhere that you usually skip over it because it’s showing two South American football teams that come from towns with a population that would be smaller than a Fenway crowd in the early 90s. But if you paid a little more attention, you’d realize that ESPN Deportes isn’t just a station for you to turn on when you’re drunk you so can scream “GOOOOOOAAAAALLLL” along with the announcers. No, this is the station that provides us baseballaholics with our fix during the offseason with live Dominican League baseball. Sure, you can’t understand the announcers since they’re speaking Spanish. And it’s a little strange that they say that a batter is “2-0″ instead of “0 for 2″. But they use wooden bats, and play 9 full innings. You’re welcome Keith.