According to the blog of Marc Lancaster, the Florida house passed a bill last week to help fund improvements to spring training facilities.

The Reds have been looking to build a new spring training complex in Sarasota, and early reports even had them partnering with Pittsburgh Pirates, who train in nearby Bradenton, but there's been no mention of that plan for quite a while.

Mr. Lancaster also wrote a story about the bill for the Cincinnati Post. This part of the story turned out to have a lot more validity than the part immediately following about Griffey coming off the DL the first day he was eligible.