Spring + Baseball = Awesome

Baseball season is finally here in 7 days. This has been a shorter off-season because the great "Rockies Run of 2007" took the fans into late October. The Rockies have finally decided on the rotation: Francis, Cook, Jimenez, Morales and Redman. They have also decided who will start the season at 2nd Base: Jayson Nix.

After talking to the Morning Baseball Chatter group (which I made the name up this morning but we have been doing this for quite some time now) we only have one problem..."Who is going to be Taveras' back-up in Center Field?" Can you believe it? After all these years of saying "This is our year" and thinking "What are we going to look like at the All-Star break" knowing very well that we will be out of the playoff running in August; we actually can say "This is our year" and mean it.

Years before during Spring Training and all the way to June, we were still trying to figure out who all these new young players are and how to say names like Tulowitzki and Yorvit Torrealba. This year we know who the starting line-up is, we know who is in the rotation and bullpen, heck...we know the songs played when they come to bat not only for the starting line-up, but for Spilly too!! All year, even at different sporting events, when we hear the "Let's Go" chant, we say "TULO". I get excited for baseball every year, but with more friends to talk to about baseball and with how the Rockies ended last season, I feel like I am more excited this year then any year before.

More to come as I have tickets to 14 games starting on the best day of the year, Rockies Home Opener on April 4th!!