Winding down

With just a week before Colin heads back to school, we're planning on ending his vacation this weekend hounding the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. Chances are we'll go to either Saturday or Sunday against the Indians, but pass on the Red Sox for now. They'll be back later, on a weekend.

We're going to work a Cleveland team ball, trying to snag a few at the hotel and the game. Besides Trot Nixon, we'll look for Travis Hafner, Grady Sizemore and, really, anyone else we might recognize. The same goes for the Red Sox. The team stayed at the Don Cesar on St. Pete Beach, rather than the customary Vinoy, during its last trip to play the Rays.

I'll be honest. I'm much more comfortable doing hockey than baseball. I don't mind doing the homework. And it has nothing to do with the player, either. It's just too blasted hot and humid to spend a couple hours in the heat and sun.

We do need to make a couple more trips out for the Rays. We came across a McFarlane of Tampa Bay's Scott Kazmir, so that's something that meeds to get signed before season's end. Colin still needs a few more players, notably Carl Crawford, Akinori Iwamura, James Shields, Delmon Young and Kazmir for a pretty solid team ball.

It'll still be warm in September, when the Lightning opens camp, but it won't be too awfully long before we're back in the 70s. Hounding in T-shirts and shorts. That's one of the reasons I moved here.