What with my birthday going down and all the churn associated with that, I completely overlooked the other most significant event of last week. It involved the recitation of the 5 most exciting words in all of sports: “pitchers and catchers report today.”
Both the Orioles and Nationals opened their 2020 spring training seasons this past Wednesday in Florida on my birthday no less. (Quick aside here – thank you to all of you who were kind enough to drop me a nice note/text/FB comment wishing me a Happy B’day. I appreciate you all thinking about me and taking the time to reach out. Best card I got was from my sister Donna. Nothing like a sister to keep you humble right?)
But back to baseball. Maybe the best headline I saw concerning our home teams’ start of spring training was this one about the Nationals sharing their spring training facilities with their rivals the Houston Astros.
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| https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/astros-nationals- |
For those of you not familiar with this Astros cheating story here is a good article detailing it for you (click here.)
The Nationals of course are the defending MLB champions after a great year and playoff run. Conversely, the O’s, well let’s just say that things get can only get better. This is exactly why spring training is the best time of year because everything begins anew and hope really does spring eternal, or something like that anyway.
Speaking of birds, have you checked out the Port Tobacco Park eagles’ live cam showing Hope and Chandler hatching 3 eggs (click here.) (Yeah, like I’ve got nothing better to do.)
Elvis does a great take on Chuck’s Promised Land tune. I don’t know why but the line “cut your engines and cool your wings” (1:30 mark) will often run thru my mind and serve as a slowing mechanism for me whenever I’m hustling, bustling and overdoing it. Obviously, sitting around watching Hope and Chandler on the live cam is not one of those times.