It’s the endless debate every spring: Do these games matter? Frankly, there are arguments for either case, but at the end of the day, what matters is that baseball is back.
Don’t tell that to these two essayists, however! When we put out the question of whether or not the pre-season is watchable for our readers to decide, we never expected to have two entire responses, one for either side, delivered to The Good Phight HQ; one jammed through the mail slot until it was a crumpled, illegible mess, the other thrown through a window rubber-banded to a Ryan Howard garden gnome.