Where Angels Fear to Tread

This year Spring Training begins February 27th for Los Cubbies!  So since the football season is over (yes, yes I know there is one game left, big deal) I can now start the countdown.  33 days until baseball!  Opening Day for the regular 2011 season is April first at Wrigley Field, against Pittsburgh.  April first?  Oh boy.  That reminds me of a place I once stayed out in California called the Fools Rush Inn.

This is the time of year when all seems possible for the Cubs.  In the middle of winter here we need a little hope that spring is coming soon.  In the hearts of Cubs fans everywhere spring will begin on February 27th this year.  That's good news.  It may be -5 outside that day but green leaves of wishful thinking will be sprouting in our forgiving minds.    We may have a snow day off from school and work that day, but we will be wearing our Cubs t-shirts around the house, even if we have to turn up the thermostat.  We will rush right in, forgiving again last year and the year before that...because it's finally "next year" and until opening day comes to an end, everyone is in first place.  Even the Cubs.