BG would love to watch the opening day game with a crowd of Batlings, but she fears we may be straining the Bulldog's capacity. Does anyone have any suggestions of centrally located sports bars with good capacity?

For your spring reading lists: Batgirl highly recommends the new by Stew Thornley. It's a wonderful, detailed, fascinated history of, well, baseball in Minnesota from the 1800s to now, and it's got the President on the cover! There's a signing party for the book on April 6 at Mill City Museum that should be bitchin'.

Also, one of the best writers in blogdom, Alex Belth of Bronx Banter, has a new book out: .

And finally, BG's close personal friend will be reading at the Borders in Coon Rapids on Saturday at 1:00. For more info, and for other readings, please visit the appearance page of the CPF's website.