Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat?

I'm going to be volunteering in the office of one of the baseball stadiums during Spring Training. The pay sucks (there is none), but it's baseball. I'll have a reason to get out of the house and who knows? Maybe it will lead to a real job somewhere.

We loved the new stadium! The last time we saw the Cardinals play in St Louis was in 1979 before we were married. Bill finally had his first beer at Busch. :-)

We had such a fantastic time at the Cardinals game in St Louis. It was our first time at the new Busch Stadium. We also had fun in Branson.

More on that later.

Tonight we are relaxing in Amarillo - didn't quite get an early enough start to make it to Albuquerque. We're having a thunderstorm! :-)

Tomorrow night - home in Phoenix.

Pitchers and catchers reported to Spring Training over the weekend. Position players report later this week. I'm not sure if we'll be going to many games this year since Spring Training tickets have become so expensive, but there are two new stadiums here (one shared by the Dodgers and White Sox and another for the Indians with the Reds to report next year) so I am hoping we get to go to one of each.

FYI - the house should be officially ours next Wednesday. The painters will start Thursday. I'll be posting pictures as things ge completed.

Here's a story that will be of interest to long time Cardinals baseball fans (Angie and Rena). I remember Bobby Tolan. This is tragic, but I think there are probably more facts that will surface.

Son of famed baseballer shot in driveway by cop

But this is a picture of their new stadium with the lights on, and it's pretty damn cool.

I love baseball but I am sick of baseball. Every off season it's the same thing. The Yankees and Red Sox will spend the most money and get the best players. My teams will be too cheap to even buy a bad player but when they do that just puts another bad player on the roster. If we're lucky the baseball season will be exciting, and we'll end up with a World Series that 3/4 of the country won't watch because it doesn't include the Yankees or Red Sox. Until then nearly every nationally televised baseball game will include either the Yankees, Red Sox, Mets or Dodgers. And sometimes the Cubs.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.