Pitchers and catchers report to baseball spring training camps in Florida and Arizona in just over five weeks, with the rest of the team reporting a few days later. Early predictions are that my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, will lose 114 games this coming season, while my adopted hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, will lose 105. I know that both teams will probably not be playoff contenders, but will they really be that bad? Who are the geniuses who make these predictions, anyway? Do they see what a team does last year and add or subtract a few games in predicting their 2025 record? It would not shock me if the Sox and Rockies are that bad, but anything can happen in baseball, so I will keep a positive attitude. At least for now. As for those North Siders, the Chicago Cubs, they will, of course, tease their fans with the possibility of a postseason run, and then blow it during the last week or month of the season. A heartwarming tradition every Cubs fan is familiar with. In any case, I took the photograph above of Coors Field yesterday afternoon. Hopefully it will not look like that on Opening Day. I do not plan on attending the game, since due to the advent of "dynamic pricing," tickets that ordinarily would cost $30 will be selling for over $100 that day, and with my luck, if I did buy a ticket to the game, it would probably wind up being even colder and wetter. In any case, it is definitely time to start thinking about baseball once again. Holy Cow!
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