Amazemerize

As I was watching the horse race the other night it occurred to me that a lot of the racehorses in America are put down due to injuries and that really made me sad to think of that. Take Barbaro the horse was watched by millions of Americans as he broke down and they tried to save him a few years ago, what a heroic battle that brave horse put on in his battle for his life. I am a horse lover and it is a shame that the big hearted beasts can lose their live racing for our pleasure.

The season is over for the Nashville Predators and the long off season starts for players and us fans too. No football no hockey I only have baseball to sate my sports mind until the football draft in a week, I can not wait for the off season news for the football teams, the news never stops for sports teams and their fans. I only wish we had a big league baseball team here in Nashville, we do have a AAA team but I have only been to one game there. We will have to make an effort to attend some Sounds games this year too.

One of the things about spring that I love besides the good weather is the fact that Spring Training for Major League Baseball starts and the start of the season can not be far behind. Our first date was to a Baseball game and baseball has been a part of our lives ever since. We have made a couple of trips to Chicago and St Louis to see baseball games and I feel the need for a baseball trip to Atlanta this year, I can not wait. I hope the Cards have a good team this year, it will depend on the pitching, I think we have enough offense this year to make a run at the World Series.

All of the professional football teams have started their off season programs and of course some players do not go to this very important part of their off season conditioning. Players who think they are in good shape and some that just do not want to be on the teams they are on and will try and force their teams to trade them, what some of them do not understand is the team they are on is maybe the only team that will put up with their crap and they better get on the boat or they will be flipping burgers next year at this time and that does not pay as well as playing football for a living.

As winter draws to a close the one thing that I look forward to the most is the start of the baseball season. Well that and going fishing both of these things keep me busy in the spring and summer and into the fall of the year. I love baseball it was the game I played the most in my youth, football which I was much better at did not start for me until the 9th grade, the small school I went to in Gate Oklahoma did not have enough boys for a football team we played basketball and baseball in the summer we also had a small track team, had to be small only had 3 boys in my 8th grade class. I can not wait for the crack of the bat.