It's true! Baseball spring training begins one week from today in Florida and Arizona! And the big news this off-season is that the Boston Red Sox have hired their ex-GM, Theo Epstein, as an advisor. Epstein is the baseball genius who won World Series titles for both the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs. Yes! The Chicago Cubs! And so to me, Boston fans have something to be really optimistic about. But they are still whining, because this means the team will be going through a rebuilding process while Epstein builds a winner. But at least they can look forward to a winner. Here in Denver, the Colorado Rockies front office hasn't a clue about how to build a winner, and the team owner does not seem to care as long as the Rockies continue to draw almost three million fans each year, despite being a last place team. As for back in my old hometown, my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, are also in a rebuilding mode, after imploding in 2023, and I have no idea how long it will take them to recover. Is new management there competent? Beats me, but there is always hope. Their North Side rivals, the Chicago Cubs, actually made a run at the playoffs last year, and so look like they might actually be competitive, although it is, after all, the Cubs, and they seem to have a bad habit of losing every single game after the 1st of September. Just sayin'.
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