3/24

The Mrs. and I went to the Roger Dean Stadium yesterday to see my beloved Mets play a spring training game against the Miami Marlins.  Roger Dean is the spring home of the Marlins, and just about 10 minutes from where we are staying, so the Mets were the visiting team.  Many of the professional baseball clubs do their training down here in Florida beginning in February because of the weather up north, which I'm told can be a little inconvenient at this time of year. 
(Pause for the round of "thought invectives" which are now being directed toward me because I am in Florida now, and you are not.)
And we're back.  
Anyway, the thing that puzzles me is why the MIAMI Marlins have to go somewhere else to train in the spring.  The Pittsburgh Pirates?  Yeah, I get it.  But the Marlins?  Miami is the perfect temperature right now.  Maybe in August they would need

to go somewhere else, but certainly not now.  Most of the Miami players appeared to be just a as confused as I was.  The Mets won 12-3, scoring 8 runs in the second inning, and the Marlins were never in it.

Sitting in the stands next to us was a school group of what appeared to be 4th graders, on a field trip to the ballpark.  As you can imagine, it was all about the snacks, and constantly having to escort kids to the bathroom.  As I watched the chaperones riding herd on their flock (to mix a metaphor), I was reminded of the old maxim: "As you are now, I once was.  As I am now, you will one day be."  Hopefully they are as happy with their place on the circle of life as I am with mine.