Treading Water

I try not to get too excited when the temperature breaks 40 degrees on January 6. No matter how warm it feels, it’s still January 6, too early for much baseball. Get impatient, and the gods will send a blizzard in punishment. So, I follow the Bulls, now back to their losing ways, two in a row and counting after falling last night to the Celtics 115-101. The Bears I take in small doses because getting hooked on Kool-Aid is a dangerous thing. They win on Saturday, great. That gets January into double digits. Still, old habits die hard. I peaked at “Transactions” in the Sun-Times to find the Brewers hired Daniel Vogelbach as one of their hitting coaches. The onetime Cubs’ farmhand managed 81 homeruns with a .219 BA over nine seasons. Well, he did have a career .340 OBP. SoxFest is the end of January. I’ll have to see if my daughter can score us some free tickets. But best not to get ahead of ourselves. You never know when it’ll snow.