Open Season

Open SeasonBaseball is in a state of shock. The 2004 season is set to start this month--2,430 games, nearly 22,000 innings, during which stars will be born and careers will be destroyed and millions of dollars will change hands, just as in so many summers before. But given what happened last October and over the winter, this season could be freakier than any other in 150 years of midget pinch hitters, bench-clearing brawls and acid-tripping aces.Let's start with last year's wild-ride postseason....