The Best Thing About Spring

I found a Caribou Coffee only 5 miles from my house.

I am happy.

Maybe they'll hire me?

This is definitely a strong contender in the GNKCCSS09.

On to more pressing matters.

I actually feel as though I have failed you all a little and misrepresented myself in the meantime.  There is something very vital to humanity happening right now and I have not blogged about it at all.

That's right.  Spring training!

The boys of summer are back, although it is hard to believe when it's supposed to snow tonight here.  But it is true.  And, even though I'm living in freaking Kansas City, my Cardinals have been dominating my thoughts and a large portion of my internet time.  (And thus, a large portion of my overall time.)

If you've been keeping up with me for a while (or if you know me at all), you know that my heart was broken a little by missing a large portion of last season because of the insane craziness of summer in the Canyon.  

I feel like I'm behind the curve, like I know very little about what happened in the collective life of my team.  But daily reading of the Post-Dispatch Sports Page has me feeling quite a bit better.

The beginning of baseball season means one thing for me: optimism.  I am excited, I am enthusiastic, I believe that we are going to win the World Series.  I'm rooting for my favorite underdog players to make the team and I'm grieving the loss of a couple of my favorites to trades.  But I'm a believer.  

I have discovered that we do get the Fox Sports Midwest feed here, but I do not know if they play the Cardinals games.  I haven't seen Cardinals Live or anything, so I'm a little scared.  But I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  I need my Cardinals games.  And Dan and Al.  I've missed them.

In the meantime, I'll be counting down the days (26) until I don my lucky Yadier Molina jersey and root my Cardinals on to a Opening Day win.  And I'll get excited about paying $8 to go to Royals games.  Definitely still fun.

Thank you Lord for baseball.