I took this photo (untouched) with my new smartphone in Kieler, Wis., at my oldest son’s baseball game last night. The temperature was in the 70s. I was wearing one of my 32,754 polo shirts and shorts. The only problems were the gnats, which are nasty enough this year to carry off someone.

The weather is expected to be similar today, when I travel to Cassville to cover a baseball regional final game between the Comets and their archrival Potosi (one of the state champion teams I’ve gotten to cover, back in 1993). The game comes on at 4:45 p.m. on http://www.theespndoubleteam.com.

After the craptacular damnable winter we lived through, I think we deserve this.