It's a practice we put into effect last year as a result of parents asking us to,

This is a day for kids. This is a day that brings out the children in all of us. You can imagine when you were 8 years old or 10 years old how, with such reverence, you viewed the phrase 'pitchers and catchers report.' And the van leaving is that trigger of emotion that tells you it's just five days until pitchers and catchers report. And on a day when New England is blanketed with snow, the reminder that pitchers and catchers report in a few days by virtue of the van leaving, those are good words. Those are soothing to any New Englander's soul.

We have this discussion with parents in our practice all the time. Start them when they are young and they will grow up understanding about making financial decisions.

A handicap is not about how we walk, talk, act, dress or do things. It's about things that keep us from being what God's planned us to be. Attitudes can definitely handicap us, or relationships we keep that we should have gotten rid of, or relationships that we should have kept. Those things can be a handicap.

We've had team dinners, parties and several practice rounds at Crooked Stick and she's really pulled us together.

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.