2008 Spring Training Blog

This recently established blog is yet another good source of information on clubs as Spring Training '08 is now underway for most every club for pitchers and catchers with the remaining position players all to be in camp within the next few days or so. The results and scores of Spring Training baseball games are unimportant and largely meaningless; the more important items are how players are looking in all aspects of the game and if there are any surprises - unheralded veterans or rookies making an early splash in a bid to make the big league 25 man roster. Every year there are some players like this, but very few keep it going into the regular season for long.

Upcoming are posts with the full schedule of televised Spring games on satellite as well as the games played at sites outside of Spring Training ballparks.

http://www.springtraining08.com/

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Green Mega Futuristic Development in Las Vegas

This dense high rise urban development, The MGM Mirage CityCenter, is just the kind of new developments that sprawling metropolitan areas in the Mountain Time Zone and elsewhere need to see occur more often. I have not been in Las Vegas in five years, and apparently much has changed as a lot of high rise residential as well as commercial construction has occurred or is underway with plenty more on the horizon. This particular project, between I-15 and Las Vegas Boulevard along the strip adjacent to existing high rise casino hotels, is about the most ambitious in scope and cost ongoing at this time, and full completion is not expected until 2012.

http://www.citycenter.com/



http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/citycenter.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CityCenter



http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Feb-13-Tue-2007/news/12548470.html



http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/24/market-gets-tougher-citycenter-sell-dubai/#/City_Center_model/

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Yet Another Weather Based Website

http://www.weatherforyou.com

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Website to Bookmark

This website enables one to map the counties in the nation that one has been in. In some cases, the map will look like a long line to reflect counties in while on the highway. In only two states have I been in every county, Wyoming and New Mexico. I have been in most every county in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. I have yet to count, but I estimate I have been in 175 - 200 counties across the nation, but some only in the seat of a motor vehicle passing through.

http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/

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