April 7

At the end of this week is April Fools Day. Near the end of the next is opening day for the Sacramento River Cats - the AAA franchise of the Oakland A's that has won the PCL twice in the last two years. AAA ball is fun - about 15,000 seats - with more than 10,000 fans coming each night. Sacramento nights are cool enough to enjoy baseball. Player come here before they go to the bigs or when the are coming down - but they are here mostly without the attitude of the bigs. In July we have the allstar game for the Pacific Coast League. Then eight more days is income tax day - but after that diversion we then have several months of baseball. Can things get any better?