Why Is This News 34--Spring Training Swing Part 1: Florida!

It's almost spring, and that means it's a season of rebirth, a time when green cathedrals reopen anew, a time when the verdant promises of a nascent baseball season cause sportswriters to break out in fits of romantic claptrap like this. And we're no exception; we love spring training even as it becomes ever more like everything else in sports: overpriced and overmarketed.

Still, that didn't stop our very own Kevin Kaduk from hitting Florida for the first half of Big League Stew's Spring Swing roundup. And today, he brings us back tales from his journey, including:

? Which (surprising) team had the friendliest players;

? Why it's sometimes advisable to take a picture while driving in traffic;

? How Kaduk was put in an extremely awkward position with not-so-Fat Joe Blanton;

? The best places to eat when in Tampa and various other locales; and

? Why you should never go get autographs from major league ballplayers after a certain age.

It's good stuff, and we'll have Part 2 after Kaduk returns from Arizona next week. Enjoy.�

We, as always, are Jay Busbee, the editor of From The Marbles and Devil Ball, and Kevin Kaduk, the editor of Big League Stew, and you are our reader/listener, and we thank you for that.

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Why Is This News 33--Spring Training Swing, Part 1: Florida!

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