Spring Training is here.

LOVING IT! Today marks the first game of Spring Training and the Dodgers will play the Cubs - for the first time since the famous sweep in October :)

As an aside, March 7th Dodger tickets go on sale so i'll have to start carving choice gamedays into the family calendar.

We'll probably buy a couple of Angel tickets as well, but I’ve soured a lot on them over the past few years and even moreso after last year due to the “incident” involving an adult beverage in ANA. Drinking a Bud Light in the parking lot cost us over 400 dollars after all was said and done, money which could (and should) have gone to more Dodger playoff tickets!

I guess that's the difference in living in a conservative county (the OC) versus a more liberal one (LA).

Up until yesterday's news, I was actually rooting for A-Rod to beat Bonds in HRs as Bonds (in my mind) embodied everything wrong with baseball, and A-Rod at the time was everything I thought was right (in terms of not juicing, playing the game the way it should be, etc).

I guess I can throw all of that out the window now.

The next player in line in terms of playing the game right, the face of baseball - clean, and the good guy in my mind is Ken Griffey Jr.

Speaking of the juice, no one ever mentions Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr as a likely steroid user. I'm now thinking he was juicing as most likely Mike Piazza was as well ;(

I was a pretty big Piazza fan too :(

The craziest thing about all of this is that Jose Canseco - total slimebag + shady grease-ball seems to be the only one who is reliable and actually telling the truth!

ToDo list this week: Purchase and read Torre's book.