It’s a glorious time of the year, when the sun shines bright every day and\u00a030 teams have\u00a0a shot at the World Series.<\/p>\n 2010 might be your last\u00a0chance to see the Cubs play at HoHoKam Stadium <\/a>in Mesa.\u00a0Mayor Scott Smith\u00a0is currently embroiled\u00a0in a tug-of-war\u00a0with Naples, Fla., <\/a>to secure the\u00a0team’s Spring Training\u00a0address and all the economic windfalls that come with it.\u00a0This will also be the last season you can road-trip to Tucson to watch the Diamondbacks and Rockies play at Tucson Electric Park<\/a>; those teams move into swanky new Scottsdale digs <\/a>in 2011.<\/p>\n The Cactus League now boasts 15 teams and is no longer the pesky younger sibling to Florida’s\u00a0Grapefruit League. And with aggressive\u00a0expansion has come some\u00a0awe-inspiring\u00a0new facilities, including Camelback Ranch<\/a>, home to the Dodgers and White Sox, Surprise Stadium<\/a>, home to the Rangers and Royals, and Goodyear Ballpark<\/a>, home to Ohio’s Indians and Reds.\u00a0Combine those megaplexes with the traditional, more quaint venues like the Giants’\u00a0Scottsdale Stadium<\/a>, Athletics’\u00a0Phoenix Municipal Stadium<\/a>, Brewers’ Maryvale\u00a0Baseball Park<\/a>\u00a0and Angels’\u00a0Tempe Diablo Stadium<\/a>, and the Cactus League offers baseball fans everything\u00a0they could possibly want–most of it located 40 minutes or less away from Downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pitchers and catchers have already reported and games begin the first week in March so you best make ticket arrangement pronto. \u00a0<\/p>\n And make sure to\u00a0load up on sunscreen.<\/p>\n I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is more baseball. Football is over, March Madness is still weeks away, and the NBA season has been about as exciting as watching\u00a0your mother shop for window treatments. Fear not, sports rubes and suntan seekers, there’s a light at the end of that tunnel. The 2010 Cactus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5072,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"grady\"](\"http:\/\/www.downtownphoenix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/grady.jpg\" "\\"grady\\"")
I can almost smell that seductive fragrance that is one part SPF-50, one part Polish sausage, and four parts\u00a0beer. I want to fall asleep in the outfield at Peoria Sports Complex<\/a>, perform advanced scouting for my numerous\u00a0fantasy baseball <\/a>teams, ask Reds’ first baseman\u00a0Joey Votto to sign my son’s baseball even though I’m completely childless, and I want to befriend Dodgers fans only to give them horrible directions back to their hotel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"