Today, in Arizona, the pitchers and catchers of my beloved Tribe report.
For those of you who aren't baseball fans, this means spring training is starting and the inexorable march of the seasons is slowly moving away from winter and into better weather.
Spring is on the way!
Your optimism makes me smile. I can't help myself. :)
ReplyDeleteIt is also VALENTINE'S DAY this week which is one of my favorite holidays. You can be sweet, wear pink eat chocolate and be a little corny and it's ok. Since that is my natural state, at least I fit in once a year. For those of you bloggers who are married, here's a head's up! :)
My wife and I decided before we were even married that we don't do Valentines day. It seems so cheap to me to express "feelings" on a given day of the year instead of expressing true feelings all year round. So I usually, purposely, pick random days to give her flowers and chocolates and the like.
DeleteI grew up hating Valentine's Day, particularly when I got to high school. I never had a girlfriend until I was in college, and usually spent the day watching everybody else get gifts and candy.
DeleteIncidentally, I married the first girlfriend I ever had. Worst advice my dad ever gave me: "Don't get too attached. This is your first girlfriend and you'll probably have dozens more before you finally get married." A LOT of bad decisions were predicated on that advice.
If I don't tell Ndnd I love her at least three or four times a day, she thinks I'm mad at her, which is usually correct. The silent treatment is a far more torturous punishment for her than it is for me. I just like the occasional peace and quiet.
And I'm going to get in trouble for saying that.
I get your take on it Keln. It can be viewed a holiday invented to keep Hallmark in the black, but aren't we pro-capitalism around here? :) In our family, we like celebrating, though we don't buy much. We prefer to make valentines and heart shaped sugar cookies at home. I think love and relationships are worth celebrating. I like to be thankful for my blessings all year, but I still make a Thanksgiving dinner and take the time to ponder them once a year. I try to remember those who have sacrificed for our great country everyday, too, but I still love that there is a special day where we have parades and honor them. You guys around here seem to be well blessed in the love and relationship departments. You have great reason to celebrate.
DeleteNow I'm off to make a castle valentine's box with my son. ..Then we're making cookies :)
This year, as most years, I'll be at work for whatever festivities might be available. If I had off, we'd likely drop the kids at my mom's and go see Tammy Pescatelli at the local comedy club. Because she's hilarious.
DeleteAs a life long Tigers fan I can't wait till we crawl out from hibernation to destroy your beloved racist native americans.
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DeleteBaseball is boring. Football is now America's Game, not baseball. Ever since baseball players started crying about their girl parts hurting and wanted a million dollars to play a stupid game, baseball died. That was back in the 1990s, when I set all of my baseball cards on fire.
ReplyDeleteImagine burnt cardboard and bubblegum...very strange smelling fire that was.
Baseball is just a different game, from a different era, requiring a different mindset. I love the game and have since I was a kid. I like watching real football (not that crap the Europeans call football, which is soccer and boring), basketball and hockey, but while there are differences between those games, they all are far more similar to each other than any of them are to baseball. It's an amazing sport, and I have high hopes and low expectations that the golden days will make a comeback.
DeletePersonally, I think baseball is meant for PLAYING. It's too slow to just watch. The kids and I went to a Brewers game and the most exciting part was counting how many beers the guys around us could drink before they had to go the men's room. I'd rather watch paint dry.
DeletePersonally I think anyone sports fan who cant appreciate the intricacies of baseball is of a simple mind, and an endangered soul.
DeleteDid you just say I have a simple mind...and that my soul is in jeopardy? If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, I'm not sure what is :)
DeleteThe idea that I can go to a game and history can be made that people will talk about for years is intriguing and exciting. I've been to a few Indians games that I still hear people talking about on the radio from time to time. The only time that's ever happened for a football game I've been to involved a horribly blown call and thousands of flying beer bottles.
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