Ah, it's almost spring training once again. Is there any better time in the universe than the start of baseball? Let me answer that for you -- no.

A close runner-up, however, is the beginning of Sausage Racing Season. Last year, I was lucky enough to be the chugging Chorizo, going against such wiener luminaries at Italian, Polish and the Hot Dog at a Milwaukee Brewer spring training game.

Check out the video here (and if copying and pasting this link does not work for some reason, go to azcentral.com. Scroll to the bottom and click on "Videos" in the site map. Once at the videos screen, scroll down to Arizona Republic videos and click on More videos. Scroll to March 07, go down about three-quarters of the way and click on Sausage Races. Yes, you will probably be disappointed. So? It's only 90 seconds) :

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