Hello from Kansas City, where the weather is warm and the barbecue tour has begun with lunch at Gates. Tomorrow, it’ll be Arthur Bryant’s (the original, of course) for late lunch after a visit to the Negro Baseball Museum. Next order of business is sitting by the pool and finishing Joe Posnanski’s wonderful “The Soul of Baseball” — his book about roadtripping with the legendary Buck O’Neil.

Haven’t seen outdoor major league baseball since a Safeco trip in 2005 and we’ve already spotted some Twins caps  and jerseys. We expect to find a lot more of them in and around the Sheraton that’s diagonal from the ballpark. Talked to some Red Sox fans this morning who were leaving town after watching their team. They love the park, and had a great time detailing their trips to Fenway with its $40 parking (higher for the Yankees) and uncomfortable and expensive seats. It almost sounded cheaper to come here. They had great accents.

Ms. Baseball has her Radke jersey. I’m incognito right now in a Cade McNown jersey and Sprewell Racing cap.

I’m leaving the baseball talk to LaVelle and Joe for now. I can’t top his encouraging note about Alexi Casilla’s thumb. It would be great to have him back, although I suspect there will be serious caution taken.

I can tell you that we are totally psyched to be here.  More later this weekend.

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