Lonely baseball in the desert.

I've commented before about how sportswriters are desperate for anything at all to write about, and maybe this is just an outgrowth of that, but there were two articles in the Tribune about an idea that has been percolating, which is to play the beginning of and maybe all of the season in Arizona in the spring training ballfields there.  Too big objections are that it it is too fucking hot, and that the teams would have to be sequestered in local hotels for like five months.  The latter seems the worse because, well guys just want to have fun.  And if they do this how much would the players get paid, which brings up the question are they getting paid now?

Anyway, if they do that, I know it would not be like regular baseball, but I'm pretty sure I would watch it.

Downtown streets are full of panhandlers, but anymore there aren't many pans to handle.  I carry a pocketful of change and hand out like fifty cents to the ones I pass.  I think there is some program to house them in empty hotels because otherwise most of them are going to die.

And I know this is not so big a deal but I have to tell you that I wonder about pigeons.  How are they getting by?  Which reminds me I need to get out and feed my finches.