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I can’t wait for March 2009 …

My brother and I went to our first Cleveland Indians spring training game at Chain of Lakes Park back in 1999. Since moving to Florida in 2001, I’ve been out to see the Tribe in Winterhaven at least one weekend every March.

Sadly, this past year the Tribe ended their stay in the Grapefruit League and will be returning to Arizona for the 2009 spring camp.

If you can’t continue one tradition, start a new one! This March my brother and I will be heading out to Goodyear for a four-day Spring Training ’09 vacation trip. We’ve been planning our travel arrangements for the past month or so now and today Indians tickets finally went on sale, completing the last piece of our planning puzzle. We’ll be seeing the Tribe take on the Milwaukee Brewers in Maryvale on Thursday, and then the Oakland As and the Los Angeles Dodgers (will Manny still be wearing a Dodger uniform then?) in the new Goodyear facility on Friday and Saturday.

Cactus League, here we come!