T.S. Eliot had it dead to rights in "The Waste Land": April really is the cruelest month.

Especially if you're the Angels, and you're paying Albert Pujols the gross national product of Albania.

Think about some things you never thought you'd see, after all, and this has to be somewhere near the top of the list. Albert Pujols going homerless for an entire month? Really?

I suppose next you're gonna tell me the BCS has decided to institute a playoff. Yeah, like that'll happen.