All Eyes on Florida

The Coronavirus took the entire world by storm, shutting down most businesses for months on end.  Things are slowly starting to get back to normal, albeit with wearing masks.

Baseball and basketball have begun practicing to resume a season.

Many retailers have begun to open their doors again while still practicing social distances.

Movie theatres are planning to open back up at the end of the month.

The big news though is that Disney World, the world's largest theme park is planning to open their doors again today.

Some other theme parks have already reopened, but none of them have the tourist attraction and expectations that Disney World carries.

All eyes will indeed be on Florida today to see how Orlando handles the opening of tourism while housing the entire NBA in a bubble type area.

This is one of the cooler design patches I have of Cutch.  It is a 1/1 from Hits Memorabilia and features the large FL for Florida Grapefruit League worn on Spring Training jerseys.

It has information on the back to see the actual jersey and authenticy via their website.

Prayers for Florida

Hurricane Irma hit the Florida keys late last night and will continue to make an impact throughout today.  I have a few friends that wisely chose to evacuate that live down there.  My girlfriend's mother and cousins who live near Naples chose to just buckle down the hatches.  We are waiting to hear from them still.

Please pray for Florida today.

2014 Gypsy Queen Hometown Flags 1/5

My girlfriend and I were planning on going to Sanibel Island this week, but with the pending storm we chose not to.  Instead we just spent a few days doing things around the house.  Not much of a vacation week, but at least we are safe.

Now just to keep praying for Florida.

It's finally here!!!!

To us baseball fans, there are few better phrases than "pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training".  Of course hearing Opening Day, Home Run Derby, Postseason, and World Series Champions are pretty good too.

But for me, I get so happy when Spring Training starts.  The Pirates amongst many other teams are expecting pitchers and catchers to report today.

Everything is officially reset.

Someone who I have really enjoyed watching the past few years is Nolan Arenado.  I have considered going after a Nolan PC.  This card was part of a lot with the Cutch you see above.  Maybe it was destiny as this manurelic represents my first "hit" of the reigning 3B Silver Slugger and 3B gold glove winner.

The card backs are featured below.

If anyone wants to send me some Nolan Arenado cards I will gladly accept them.

Please don't forget about my contest.
It will run until Opening Day 2017