Cardinals Caravan 2010

Baseball season will be here soon ... opening day for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals is April 15.

The St. Louis Cardinals made their yearly Cardinals Caravan stop in Springfield on Friday. This year the venue was the beautiful new John Q Hammons Arena, home of the MSU basketball Bears and Lady Bears.

Three former Springfield Cardinals players Kyle McClellan, Josh Kinney and David Freese joined Tom Pagnozzi, Al Hrabosky, Kerry Robinson and radio broadcaster John Rooney in greeting the fans and signing autographs.

More photos: http://tinyurl.com/ygmgz4y

Better choices in 2010

Now that the holidays are over and the leftovers are long gone, it's time to make healthier choices this year. I'm not going to do what everyone else usually does, myself included, and concentrate on what NOT to eat but rather on making continual small changes. Adding at least one salad a day, more fruit and vegetables and definitely more water. Making conscious choices will eventually become the norm and putting bad choices in the past.

Happy 2010.