ng training this year. Or rather Todd Helton Jersey , I’m going to miss my annual ST game this year. Due to unforeseen circumstances, our more or less annual trek to Ft. Myers is off this year, so no game for me. But let me digress a moment 鈥y mother-in-law has a place in Florida near Ft. Myers. For the past several years, the wife, daughters and I have taken their spring break (philskatie teaches at the girls’ school) as a chance to go down and visit. They relax, I work from a different remote location. We all eat some seafood. And we all hop in the car one day, drive to Ft. Myers and take in a spring training game. No, not the damned Boston Red Sox (too expensive and too sold-outive anyway), but rather a, um, Minnesota Twins game. My wife is from St. Paul and still has some feelings for the Twins http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , which I generally don’t hold against her, and frankly, any team that employed Tony Oliva, Harmon Killebrew, Bert Blyleven and Rod Carew cannot really be all that bad. They train in Ft. Myers. I have a place to stay for free in Ft. Myers. So we go to a Twins game.And we have fun. I wear the Cooperstown Collection Rod Carew jersey my wife bought me (along with my White Sox cap), she wears hers (so we match, natch), the girls have a great time eating ballpark food and kinda-sorta watching the game, I down a couple of literal KilleBrews (a fair-to-middling root beer), and a great day is enjoyed. But I’ve never really done spring training. Now, the Twins’ facility is first-rate: A great little ballpark (The Ft. Myers Miracle — A-ball team — play there during the regular season. It’s where the Twins demoted Miguel Sano for fat camp during last season.)Practice fields and minors facilities all easily accessible.Relatively good parking.But being just far enough away that it’s a bit of a bear to drive to Charlie Blackmon Jersey , the kids and wife having their interest and patience sated by a game (and no desire for more) make it impractical to really do spring training. There is no hanging out at the practice fields. There is no watching the MiLB players on the back field. There is no hanging out to interact with whoever may walk by on their way to or from. There is no lounging around shooting the bull with other fans, whiling away an afternoon or five, just soaking in the baseball, basking in its glow, and feeling its soothing power to make life better. And this year, not even a lousy Twins-Pirates game. Alas.But as we start spring training this year, as baseball begins to put a little more joy (and angst and dour) into our hearts and minds, I’d like to invite the SSS community to share here their ST stories, experiences, and memories (all of which, I realize http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , are the same damned things, but it’s fun to have categories available). If you’ve got a beefy enough story, or series of stories, please take the time to crack open a Fanpost and write it all down. Your story will better live on — and who knows, maybe even slide over to the main page — in Fanpost form, vs. a comment that will drown among all the replies and recs and cross-discussions of tomorrow, the next day, and the next.So as the first sounds of ball into glove and ball off of bat begin to filter in, please tell us all about spring training and you. And it will help me feel better about not getting any myself this year. CHICAGO (AP) — Kelvin Herrera helped the Kansas City Royals build to a World Series championship. He sees similar potential with the Chicago White Sox.The two-time All-Star reliever and the White Sox finalized an $18 million, two-year contract on Tuesday.Herrera will earn $8.5 million in each of the next two years as part of the deal, and the White Sox have a $10 million option for 2021 with a $1 million buyout. The option would become guaranteed it he appears at least in 110 games as a pitcher during the next two seasons Trevor Story Jersey , including at least 55 in 2020, and he passes a physical at the end of the 2020 season.Herrera was part of a dominant bullpen that helped Kansas City win back-to-back pennants and the 2015 World Series. He hopes to help the rebuilding White Sox complete a similar climb.“I’m excited for the direction this team has taken,” he said through an interpreter. “It resembles my time with Kansas City when I was starting. We were in the rebuilding mode, and we were just trying to learn how to play the right way, with intensity and giving it a 100- percent effort every time. I think that’s something that you can see in this team, too.”The 29-year-old right-hander has a 2.82 ERA and 60 saves in eight seasons with the Royals and Washington. He had a 2.44 ERA with 17 saves in 48 games last year for Kansas City and the Nationals, who acquired him on June 18.Herrera did not pitch after Aug. 26 because of a broken left foot. He said he has been throwing and is optimistic he will be ready to start spring training with no restrictions.Chicago is coming off its sixth straight losing season, finishing fourth in the AL Central at 62-100 last year. The White Sox acquired former Tampa Bay closer Alex Colome in a trade with Seattle in November. They also got first baseman and designated hitter Yonder Alonso from Cleveland last month.