Cool in the Sunshine State

January in New York is about as far away from the baseball season as you can get. Throw in that the Super Bowl won't even be played until February, and you've really got a deep freeze month.

We know this will change, and they will be Florida having spring training.

And when I think about Florida and baseball and warm weather, I always think about a Yogi Berra story.

Mayors of large cities always go somewhere else once they're elected. After all, they're entitled to a vacation too, right? So, one winter in Florida at the Yankee training camp New York's mayor Robert Wagner stops by for a visit with his wife Phyllis. They meet Yogi Berra on the field, who at the time is not dressed in his Yankee uniform, but is rather in "street" clothes.

This being Florida, and this being winter and warm in Florida, Yogi it turns out is dressed quite appropriately for the weather and the setting: sunglasses, lively patterned shirt and pastel slacks. He looks bright.

Phyllis comments to Yogi that, "Yogi, you look so cooool." Yogi is pleased with the compliment and effortlessly gushes back, "Phyllis, you don't look so hot yourself."

Play ball.

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