Guess where this is? In North America? Yes. A major city? Absolutely. A recent picture? Like today. Suspense over. This is Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Yes, that Lakeshore Drive. Believe it! Looks like Moscow in February...or maybe Cleveland.
Kudos to my buddy, Ricky, who smartly lives in balmy Florida for sending this picture to me. It seems his son and our son, Jack, have something in common. They both live in snowy Chicago and are enduring one of the worst winters in that city's history.
Speaking of worst winters, this has to rank right up there as one of the nastiest seasons ever east of the Rockies extending all the way to the Atlantic! The eastern seaboard resembles the North Pole. Snow at the Super Bowl...in Texas? Is there such a thing as global cooling? Go ask Al.
But there is light at the end of the next pounding storm...only 13 days to the arrival of "pitchers and catchers" in Florida and Arizona. Only 25 days for full squads to appear for spring training. And only 61 days to opening day.
It may seem like the ice age will never loosen its grip where you live but boys and girls this too shall pass and baseball will return. I can smell the newly cut grass already. Hotdogs. Beer. John Kruk. Heat. Cardinals win. The thrill of it all....
You didn't mention anything about Pujols?
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