Silver Lining

Typical March in Chicago. I have a new/old bike ready to go, but the weather absolutely refuses to cooperate. It’ll either rain or snow or do both tonight, and for the next seven days the temperature isn’t expected to crack forty degrees. I wonder what the over-and-under is. On top of that, Dylan Cease got rocked last night in his start against the Royals. He retired one batter in the first inning while giving up five runs, including a bases-loaded walk before a grand slam, then came back in the second to cough up six more runs against one out. Afterwards, Cease said he felt fine, and, as we all know, health is what counts in life. Come the regular season, none of this subbing in and out. No, Cease would be charged with five runs before his manager probably pulled the plug on his start. That 37.13 ERA is merely a product of the thin air that rules in the Cactus League. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.