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“The Return of Muddling Marv!”

Encouraged by an overwhelming desire of his fans (at least three), The Muddler is resuming blogging after a lengthy bout of:

a) Jet lag. b) Lingering jet lag. c) Aggravated laziness, followed by d) a severe case of writer's block.

But enough excuses. The truth is that after more than a year of nightly blogging I ran out of steam. And after a two-week-plus visit with our Israeli family, the flight home wiped us out.

Last year I tried to follow the blogger's code: write every day, more than once a day if you have something to say. I liked the challenge but I realized that just before bed time is not exactly the best time of day to be productive.

OK, so what's been happening since I last wrote at the end of February?

Mitt Romney is still running for the Republican presidential nomination but his opponents are not. I hear he's looking for a Veep candidate he can strap to the roof of his car for the trip to the White House. Good luck with that.

The Republicans still hate the Democrats and anything they propose. The Democrats are too timid to hate back. Bi-partisanship? What's that?

Tim Tebow comes to the Jets. They still don't have a prayer for the Super Bowl.

Jeremy Lin jump-starts the Knicks and then suffers a season-ending injury. He was fun while he lasted.

The Mets opened their season strong and then got shut out by the Nationals, of all teams. Same old, same old Mets?

The Yanks lose three to the Rays (no surprise there) and then take three from the Orioles (no surprise there, either.) The real season starts tomorrow when they meet the Pujols-powered Angels.

My son, Rob, loves the Tigers and with Cabrera and Fielder hitting 3-4, who can blame him. And until someone proves otherwise, Verlander is still the best pitcher in the AL. Go kitties. (But not further than the Yanks.)

I'm not promising a daily dose but we'll do our best to keep up the flow.

That's all for now. And it's only 8:35 p.m.