If you think this page looks a little different, it’s not your imagination.

I am starting off the new year with a bang and a few blisters, as I begin training over the next 16 weeks to participate, with my gorgeous sister Stephanie (that’s her on the right), in the 10th Anniversary Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, May 5-6, in Washington, D.C.

The two of us, aka WINSTON CUPS: TEAM HOPE AND DIAMONDS, will make every human effort to walk the 39.3 miles over those two days along with thousands of other survivors (that would be Stephanie) and the people who love them (that would be me) in hopes of raising awareness, raising hope and raising funds for the former two.

I promise I will still be chiming in with baseball news and notes, including an entry tomorrow that will detail a HUGE and AWESOME event I am attending this evening. But meanwhile, the page is pink in honor of the task ahead of me, and the new blog name also reflects what I’ll be all about for the next several months.

Hope you will take the time to check out our pages, linked to the right, and also please watch the video that Stephanie made as she celebrated her first anniversary of her surgery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noVlp7y__L8&feature=player_embedded