Spring Training??? More Like Middle of the Winter Training

Spring Training is underway. In fact, teams are already scrimmaging each other. I've gotta admit I'm really excited for this season. I really feel that Atlanta (for those who don't know they're like my favoritest team like ummm ever) has a great shot at making the playoffs for the first time since 2005 (that 18 inning playoff game still gives me a bad taste in my mouth.) Although it saddens me that this will be Bobby Cox's last season, I feel that all of the variables for a special season are in place. They have a solid starting pitch staff with Kawakami being the only real question mark among starting pitchers. I'm excited that the Braves will not have to hit against Billy Wagner (who's dominated the Braves hitters in the past.) Takashi Saito should also be a good addition. Put that pitching staff with a potentially dangerous lineup and the Braves have the potential for a very special season. I know that Troy Glaus at 1B is a big question mark and Chipper Jones is coming off of an extremely poor 2nd half last season, but their lineup should have no real holes. Their outfield should be the best they've had since the departure of Andruw Jones with Melky Cabrera and Nate McLouth entering their primes, and Jason Heyward potentially being a candidate for ROY. Add that with a solid middle infield (Escobar and Prado had solid 2009 campaigns) and the Braves could reclaim what's rightfully theirs (1st place in the NL East.)

So recently I've rediscovered the greatness of Pandora. The great thing about the site is that you can discover artists that you're either not familiar with or have neglected to listen to in the past. For instance when I was listening to artists similar to Randy Newman (yeah I think Randy Newman's music is pretty awesome, ya wanna fight about it???) I discovered this artist named Dr. John. Now I don't think he's really a doctor, but he can play a mean piano. If you really like music and appreciate a variety of genres I'd certainly reccomend it. I've got genres ranging from Classical (The Romantic Period), to Bluegrass, to Modern Rock, to Christian. I never get bored with it.

While I'm on the topic of discoveries, I've come across this game on Facebook (it's this website where you can post information about yourself and network with all of your friends, but that's not important now) called Bejewleled. I've gotta say, who knew that putting a variety of jewels in lines of three could be so fun? What's even more amazing are the scores that some of my friends can rack up in one minute. I mean seriously guys (and gals), 350,000 points??? How many hours per day do you have to practice to rack up a score like that?

On that note I think it's time to sleep. Night night.