Spring has Sprung.

Well hello and happy 2012!

Baseball season is almost here, you know what that means, Spring Training time. I don't have any grand ballpark tour plans this year, (I actually plan to go to London 2012, no baseball there though). I'll just see what happens but I definitely hope to squeeze in at least a couple this year. 16 to go...I should have that cleaned up in 7-8 years, no? We'll see if the internet even exists in its present form by that time.

But back to Spring Training...one great thing about living in Florida is, Grapefruit League time! Over the past couple of weeks I have made it to a few parks. A couple of weeks ago I went to Digital Domain Park in Port St. Lucie to see the Mets play the Marlins. Then this last weekend I went to see games in Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers, and Charlotte Sports Park in Port Charlotte. A lot of these Spring Training parks are pretty standard fare, but I'll take whatever I can get after being without baseball for 5 long, cold months. Digital Domain was about average. Hammond Stadium was pretty on the outside, but boring, hot, and metallic on the inside. Charlotte Sports Park was probably the nicest of them all, and it's been recently renovated. You can't help but love the kids dressed as fruit in the fruit race.

I'm not really trying to see all the Spring Training parks, but I'm not ruling anything out! Enjoy the pics. (#1 Hammond Stadium, #2 Digital Domain Park, #3 Charlotte Sports Park.)