We won!

... the right to pay $64 to sit in what will probably be unseasonably cold April weather as the Phillies play a team that lost 103 games last year and probably won't win too many more this year (sorry Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump).

Yup, Christine won the drawing for the opportunity to buy Opening Day tickets, so we'll be playing hooky from work next month to watch the Phillies open up their bid for a third straight National League pennant against their NL East rival Washington Nationals.

Maybe we'll get to see the phenom, Stephen Strasburg. I know, he's ticketed for the minors.

So, is Christine excited?

This morning she approached me as if she had been thinking long and hard about something important. "If the Phillies skip their fifth starter because of all the off days in the beginning of the season, I think we'll see Joe Blanton pitch on Opening Day."

Somberly: Ryan Westmoreland, who might be the top Red Sox prospect, is leaving camp to have brain surgery because of a cavernous malformation. We'll be pulling for him and hope everything turns out well.