Tuesday; January 17
It is with great joy that I report that pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in less than a month. After years of COVID uncertainty and labor disputes it feels good to finally say that! There are a couple reasons I like Spring Training. First, because I spent so many years in cold climates watching ball players gathering in Florida and Arizona give me hope that winter wouldn’t last forever. The pictures of freshly mown green grass provide a wonderful contrast to the continuous white of months and months of snow. Yet, maybe the best thing about Spring Training was the perpetual hope that THIS will be the year. I have followed some pretty bad franchises throughout the years, but each February brings about the possibilities of what could happen. From now until the first week of April each club is at the top of their division and they all have an equal opportunity to be playing in October. I have even convinced myself that some teams with mediocre talent just might pull i