A group of 4 of us spent Opening Day together.  I was out voted 3 to 1 so I had to attend the parade.  I really don't get the parade, really only 3-4 entries are really necessary.  A general rule that I think should be used when deciding if someone can be in a parade is that if you aren't throwing out candy, beers, or other free goodies you can't be in the parade.  I remember when I was a kid everyone passed something out.  My bet is that someone was hit by a piece of candy, probably that Bit-O-Honey crap and then they got a lawyer and sued the parade.  That ended all future give aways due to liability issues.

My seats rocked, my wife and I had club seats.  The seats were peferctly dry, and cushy.  My brother wasn't as lucky he was in the soaking rain.  Just to be a big brother I called him druing one of the harder down pours just to ask if it was still raining because I wasn't sure from my seat.

The Nuxhall ceremony rocked.  New thing you can look forward to include new scoreboard features.  For example instead of just showing Patterson 0 for 2, they also include the correct markings for those filling out a score card.  They also have little Q & A's  with player.  For example we now know that Keppinger really digs the Different Strokes sitcom.

Although nobody will ever hit the Toyota beyond the stadium, Hatterburg was a foot away from hitting it on one of the side scoreboards.  I wander if they would count that?

Finaly Rosie won the race, Mr. Redlegs was screwed by Gapper.

I have a few pictures that I hope to post later this week.

I have posted pictures from the Spring Training Trip my wife and I took.  I broke them up into different categories so it would be easier to select what you wanted to view.