As I stare out the window at the fallen snow and accumulated slush, my thoughts are of warm, sunny places where baseball is being played and feet are dry. One of my favorite bloggers, Cub Reporter Christian Ruzich, was lucky enough to spend some time one of those places: Maryvale, Arizona with the Cubs. Christian got up close to the Cubs’ brass — team president Andy MacPhail, GM Jim Hendry, manager Dusty Baker, coaches Gene Clines and Sonny Jackson — as well as ballplayers like Kerry Wood, Corey Patterson, and Hee Sop Choi, and he’s got the photos to prove it. It looks like A LOT of fun. I can hardly wait for my own trip, but it’s two looooong weeks away.